Bordeaux

We have arrived in Bordeaux the other day where after a meal of oysters and fish soup we settled into our hotel for a early night. Then we started the next day in the light rain, but walked around quite a bit to get our bearing into the new city. We had a quick lunch at an Indian restaurant before going wine tasting with the tourism office. The wine tasting was on a bus with about 30 other people. We went to two chateaus that both had vineyards all around. One was a very large commercialized company, the other was a very small family run business. Both wines weren't fantastic, but the experience was fun none the less. Then for dinner we went into a provincial restaurant and had the formula. It was a great deal! My mom started out with mussels, and i had a goats cheese salad. Then I had duck for the main course, despite being fairly fatty it was delicious. My mom's salmon was also good if not a little creamy. The wine that we ordered with dinner was much better than the four wines we tried at the wine tasting. But that's O.K. it was still a fun experience. Then Christmas Eve, for lunch, we tried to find this small crepe restaurant that I read about. And boy was it small! The cook came out to serve us because we were the only 2 people there in a room that couple fit 10. We ordered two lunch crepes, and then the cook's mom showed up with groceries! She then finished serving us our dessert crepe (chocolate and bananas!) Then we left to wander some more in the rain. After being thoroughly soaked, we came back to the hotel for a little break. Drying out our shoes with the hair dryer, we went back out when the sun was shining to walk around some more. We are not getting ready to go out to dinner so that we can go to Christmas Eve Mass and a concert tonight.
It should be a lot of fun!
Peace, Love and Organ Music!