First Full Day in France

I got to France on Saturday, June 2nd at 6 am, was able to find the shuttle bus really easily and met up with my first host (an old family friend) at 8:30  am.  We went to a boulangerie to pick up a couple of baguettes and croissants and I had my first classically French breakfast again since 2008.  It was wonderful.  The rest of the day was really low key with the highlight of the day before lunch: I got to pick cherries from their cherry tree.  So fun and so delicious!!  

 

That evening we went to run a couple of errands and I got some hygiene essentials that I hadn't packed (including sunscreen, which I realized I was missing in Iceland and ended up getting a little sunburned.  Sounds bizarre, but true story).  Delicious French dinner on the grill followed up by delicious French cheese - oh how I've missed the cheese!!  I cannot describe the contentment I felt, sitting in the backyard, eating stinky French brie on a baguette with red wine.  Exquisite!!  I actually made it until 11:30 that night and was thoroughly entertained by a French TV show (my 2 hour nap that afternoon helped immensely).  

Sunday June 3 started off at 9:30 am, but only because I got a wake up call.  I'm curious how late I could have slept on my own =).  Today so far, the highlight has been going for a walk with Jeanot in these little woods and visiting a market, my first market since 2008.  Oh it's so wonderful being back at a French market!!! I took a few pictures I wanted to post, but something is going wonky with the computer (is it the fact that I'm international??  I don't know.  If you have suggestions, please let me know!  It doesn't recognize my camera or my USB key.  Could be interesting and quite problematic).
And again, my edited version here, as I ever so skillfully figured out how to put pictures onto my blog.  If you could see me right now, you'd see a very proud Elodie.  =)  Here are the promised market pictures:

I do believe all technology problems have been solved!

If I'm able to problem solve, you can expect to see pictures here of a super colorful stand chock full of fruits and veggies, a stand with a gorgeous variety of whole fish, and of course, a cheese stand.  =)

Also!!  Something else I could use help with from my technology saavy friends: My blog won't let me access the .com address.  It automatically takes me to .fr.  When I tried to type it in manually, it said that my site no longer existed.  Any ideas??  Just roll with it?  The new challenge of this site is that it won't let me see the top part of the page.  It's completely inaccessible.  I can see the very bottom of the box for Title, and the buttons for Save, Publish, Close, and Preview but I can't see what they say.  At least I know the Publish is the orange button.  =)  The others I'm almost positive about.  Anyone have any ideas about THAT little conundrum??