Vaction Part Two

Hey I kept my word and came back to show some more pictures from our trip. 

So on Wed we went to Toulouse -- "la Ville Rose" -- the Pink City.  I was totally expecting it to be Pink, but it is more red.  The majority of the buildings are made out of brick, which isn't that common in most of France.  I wondered around the city, when to the Cathedrale, and took a boat ride down the Garonne and the canal system that runs through the middle of the city.  We had lunch in a nice little restaurant.  Teddy had cassolet, which it the typical dish from Touslouse.

      

    

Thursday we visited a couple of the small towns and we went to visit a Chateau that was built in 1545.  In the chateau there is a picture withe the Queen mother and Queen Elizabeth with the owners of the chateau, which was pretty cool. 

Wondering out in the countryside

Just to prove that I'm here too!

Thursday we drove down to Spain, but the weather was pretty iffy all day.  It drizzled on and off and it was pretty chilly.  The clounds we low down on the mountains.  But we had time to do some shopping -- got Alison a backpack for school and of coarse various aperatifs to bring back (kinda like dutyfree shopping for us!)

See how low the clouds were!

So today is our last day -- we want to do a little hike with the girls this morning and this afternoon we want to take them to a lake to swim, play, etc.  Tehn tomorrow morning we will be driving back home.  Supposed to be a 5 and a half hour drive, but there will be a lot of traffic so it will probably take an hour or two more.