In the Sun

It has been a while. I mean to blog, but I've done so many things in the past month I really don't want to spend all my weekday evenings blogging about the excursions I've missed. However, I am going to blog about this trip..mostly because I didn't take very many pictures, which I greatly regret.

On Saturday, I went to Europa Park with J, a friend I met at work. It was so much fun going with her, she was just so excited to go on all the rides! It was the first time I've been to a big theme park with a friend (Calaway does NOT count)! Europa Park is one of the biggest theme parks in Europe, it's location is south-west Germany. In addition to the rides, we also saw a flamenco performance and a play about the 3 musketeers. Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand it because it was in a mix of German and French...I wish they just stuck with one language, the mix just made it more confusing @_@

The guy in the middle was amazing, at one point he danced using a whip and he also used a lasso!

The 3 musketeers + some other guy surrounded by soldiers? Police? 

Before I continue, I have to point out that it was supposed to storm and rain all day. To be honest, I was very surprised that God answered my prayer; we got sun and 30 degree weather the entire time I was in Europa Park. It was such a selfish request... >.<

After Europa Park, we headed to Strasbourg, France to meet up with another friend, V. She was originally going to come to Europa Park with us, but due to unforeseen circumstances she couldn't. I was very glad she could show us around Strasbourg, because she had lived there for 3 years while doing her bachelors! We ate dinner with her and two of her friends. Their suggestion was to try a specialty of Strasbourg, 'La Tarte Flambée'.

It's kind of like a pizza, but on SUPER thin crust. There was cheese, ham, and onions on top. The traditional way of eating it is to cut it into strips and roll it up, like a fajita. We also had this sweet white
wine with it, which was really good.

I secretly really wanted to try speaking French, I feel so bad making them speak to me in English when I could have been making an effort to speak French. 

We were supposed to go to an outdoor classical music concert afterwards, but as we were heading to V's car, a lightning storm rolled in. But that's ok...because we took refuge in a cafe, that sold desserts! It's called 'Jeanette et les Cycleux'. I wanted a creme brulee...but they weren't selling it at the time D: So I ordered a lemon meringue tart (it's like the pie, but smaller). It was so lemony, but sweet at the same time, and the meringue wasn't sugary, unlike when I make it from the box back in Canada. I was surprised by how liquidy the meringue was though, it's not as solid as I thought it would've been.

All of us - me + dessert!

The others had chocolate fondant with some sort of cream/icing, which looked delicious. I felt like such a tourist taking pictures in this cafe. Although if I wasn't Asian I could've passed as just someone taking photos with friends because some people at another table were also taking photos. I wish I could've spent more time with V's friends, we only got to spend one evening together. They seemed like such interesting people!

The French accent is SO cute! I cannot imagine why V would ever want to get rid of her accent. She claims that her English is bad because she can hear her accent...when she said that I kinda bursted out saying how her accent is cute. There was a bit of silence before she continued talking, I hope that didn't come across the wrong way ><

And that's it for Saturday. Hopefully I won't be lazy and there should be another post in 24 hours regarding Sunday!