Rainy Weekend and Musée Visit in Lyon

This weekend was pretty chill and chilly.

On Friday, Melissa came into town and we all went over to an english assistant's place to celebrate his birthday. There we also met another english assistant named Clare. She was really nice and she even baked a delicious cake for Jack’s birthday. 

Jack cutting his cake!

All us girls! Me, Kim, Melissa, Kate, and Clare

Then after hanging at his place, we all went out for some drinks and then to a club. It was another long but good night.

On Saturday, we all slept in and it was rainy all day. So, it wasn’t a very productive day and it went by really fast. I got up around noon and I think that’s the latest I ever slept in here so far.

On Sunday, Kate, Kim, Melissa, and I went to Lyon for the day. Unfortunately, it rained on and off throughout the day. We arrived just around lunchtime and we had a delicious lunch at a restaurant called the Hippopotamus. I had a yummy burger, fries, and delicious crème brûlée. 

Delicious food

Melissa and I enjoying some Crème Brûlée!

Later, we met up with a friend of Kim’s named Stefan who is also a german language assistant. Then all of us went to visit the Musée des Beaux Arts. It had a lot of different kinds of art. I liked looking through the collections but it was a little bit of an art overload for me. There were some people there who seemed to really reflect on different sculptures/paintings. I kid you not, there were people who had chairs and just sat and stared at the same piece of art for a while. I guess they were really just taking it in or something. 

Here's what you can and can't do in the museum

Cool lion statue

Nice painting of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus

A modern art painting

Interesting statue outside the museum in the little garden area

After the museum, we all walked around Lyon some more and then found a cafe where we had some tea/coffee. We stayed there chatting for a while before decided it was a good time to start heading out. Luckily for us, Stefan offered to give us a ride home to Roanne. It was an entertaining ride home and it was interesting listening to a GPS in German for the first time lol. 

Rainy Lyon... the sun started to come out a little late in the afternoon

When we got back to Roanne, it was already dark outside. We all had dinner then chatted and went to sleep. 

Monday was a bank holiday but I never work on Mondays anyways. Practically all of the stores were closed today. It is definitely not like in the US where there are sales pretty much on every holiday. So today I didn’t do much, but Kate and I did go on another 30min run to the port. It was a little more challenging because it is getting colder outside. I also planned some lessons for this upcoming week. 

Ready for another three day school week,

Magdalena