Saturday, August 20, 2005

Kate and Harry's excellent adventure

It was the last day here for Kate before returning to the states and then starting her senior year at college. With Harry here, they decided to spend the day exploring the city and being a tourist. They went to the market and walked around to a lot of the more interesting sights. They climbed the hill just north of the city and went up into the tower of the church that is on the hill. Harry took some awesome pictures. They returned home just in time for the Friday night routine of Mass and Pizza. Then they went out for the night. At the end of a long evening, they saw that there was the typical game of Petanque going on in the park across the street. Often we see little old men smoking, drinking, talking, and playing a friendly game of what we call Boucce Ball. At that hour, it was young people playing and Kate had set as one of her goals for this trip - to play Petanque in the park - so they asked these guys if they could play. They said it was a very fun and interesting time as they learned the rules and had some interesting discussions with them. They discussed socialism vs. communism, public education vs. private education, and the differences between higher education in the US and France. Kate and Harry came home late and Kate spent the remainder of her time packing for an early morning flight the next day.

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