Toussaint Part Three: SO Much Shorter Than the Other Two

While in Avignon, we took a day trip to Nîmes, home of the oldest and most intact Roman ruins in all of Europe--so cool :)

We started our day off on the wrong foot when we bought 2€ coffees that the bus driver wouldn't let us take on the bus.  We chugged two mouthfuls, then got sourly onto the bus with scalded tongues and still no energy.  It was a very short trip, and we arrived in Nîmes right as the skies let out a deluge like we'd never seen.

We--miserable, cranky, soaked, and caffeine-deprived--made our way toward les Arènes, the Roman ruins, and stopped in an adorable café on the way.  There, we had the most incredible food--and the most incredible service--we've ever had in France, and the timing was perfect--we were about to kill each other/ourselves :P

Mmmmmmmmm :)

After our fantastic lunch, we shopped around for a little bit (and bought more postcards than we thought humanly possible.  We've all just started this new program called PostCrossing.com where you send and receive postcards from all over the world.  For that, our postcard binge was almost justified....but not quite :P)

We finally made our way to the Roman ruins, but it was raining so hard that mostly we just swordfought with our broken umbrellas... 

...pretended we were bulls...

 
...and laughed at the well-endowed matador statue...

 

The other girls eventually made it up into the old Roman Arena, but since I'd already visited the one in Arles (and wanted to save 9€), I spent the next couple of hours reading and writing postcards in the most adorable café that sold the tiniest croissants I've ever seen!   

You can't tell, but they're only about an inch long.  (That's what she said?)

It was a fun day trip, and I'd love to go back when it's not flooding :)