The trip that was supposed to be Barcelona

Thursday evening I went to an amazing French movie with my group “Un Secret” is Tres Bien- I highly recommend it even if you have to read the subtitles. I understood it very well without subtitles, though, I consider that progress which considering the lack of class I have had this month is good!
While I was at the movie Galen went to the SCNF (train office) to ask about our trip to Barcelona, the man at the office promised her that the trains would be going to Barcelona and we would have no problems. Oh if only our luck were that good.
We woke up early Friday morning got on the bus to the Valence train station, things seemed to be going our way we felt good about it. We took the train from Valence to Montpellier then we had a nice 2 hour layover there where we all got coffee and had some Pain au Chocolate and read our books, yet after an hour we realized that our train was not on the departure board . . . not a good sign. So Galen went to stand in line and find out the information. Well she found out our friend from the Grenoble SCNF office . . . was wrong- the train was not going to Barcelona. So there we sat about 3 hours from Grenoble and 5 from Spain wondering what exactly we were gong to do; cursing the French strikes all the while under our breath in both English and French. Well we got out tickets refunded for Spain and found some tickets to Nimes- a city in France with a cute old history not nearly as cool as Spain would have been but they had a nice place to stay and a few tourist things to see. So off we went to Nimes. There we went shopping I found a nice warm coat to make my parents happy  we also went to an arena where they have bull fighting in the spring and watched them practice and we went to the old roman stone garden. All in all the weekend was not a bust but it was not what we had been hoping for.
Well we can only hope we actually do make it to Milan next weekend! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!