The Tragedy

After swimming and tanning for an hour, the rain clouds started to appear again. We packed up our stuff and started for home. We stopped for the regional specialty, paella, but it was a major letdown. It's rice with mussels and shrimp (I didn't eat any nasty mussels) but it didn't really taste like much. Along the way home we found a whole narrow street filled with sweet shops. In one shop there were a hundred types of homemade candies, cookies, and chocolates. We got 2 cookies and 2 candies: it cost 4 euros! We laid out our towels in a park and ate them beside a fountain. After cleaning up at home we decided to run to the train station. After almost 2 hours looking at schedules and almost getting ripped off by ticket guys, we got tickets for a round trip to Cannes, the beach city where all the movie stars come each May. We booked our same hostel for tonight and went to Old Nice. We ate at an Italian restaurant where we'd seen some awesome rigatoni pasta. After we oedered, we realized we only had 27.20 euro between us; we were at a nice restaraunt. Hunter got a trofie pesto and I got the rigatoni al forno. They were both absolutely delicious. There was enough rigatoni left over for lunch for the both of us. Then tragedy struck: THERE ARE NO TO-GO BOXES IN FRANCE!! We ate until we felt sick, but there was so much that got thrown away. It was horrible. Theb, to make matters worse, we were 30 cents short on the bill. We left our money on the table, ran home, only had 20's, got gelato to make change, and gave the guy 2 euro to keep, all before the restaraunt closed. Then we went home (the Finnish were already sleeping) and slept. Today we woke up and rode to Cannes. It had a tiny beach and nothing really historic. We left immediately, got another train, and are now headed to Antibes, which has a castle! Here is past tidbit I forgot to mention: Hunter got a coke at a restaraunt and it cost 4 euros, which he's still mad about.