saying goodbye to nice and weird food.

thursday june 7.
Tonight was our last dinner as a class. We went to what we thought would be a fancy seafood restaurant in Old Nice, but it turned out to be a little more adventurous than we expected.

Ashley's fish, it was smiling at her.

I played it safe and ordered the salmon, but it was so burnt and dry that I could hardly eat it.

 I also tried the mussels and the duck foie gras but refused to try the oysters after watching everyone else's reactions. Apparently they tasted like ocean water. I decided that I would wait and try oysters another time when I knew they would be good.

melissa, ashley, and me. i wore my lobster dress for the occasion.

ashley,me and john

 Afterwards Ashley and I stuck around to check out the open air craft market, there were vendors selling handmade jewelry, paintings, sculptures, etc. It was fun to talk to the artists and designers about their work. I walked away with an adorable ring for my sister and a little bit of inspiration for my own artwork.

friday june 8.
After finals, Emily and I took a walk down to Old Nice for some gelato. It was crazy windy on the way there and the waves were enormous.

loved this boy throwing rocks into the ocean. his swimsuit matched the water.

 We were looking for a gelato place called Fenocchio, which we had heard good things about. We got to the right street and found 2 places called Pinocchios and then the Fenocchio all on the same square, so it was kind of confusing but once we saw all the flavors at Fenocchio we knew that was the one. It was like Bertie Botts every flavor beans but with ice cream. They literally had everything you could think of- I would not have been surprised to see dirt or earwax.

Jasmine, verbena, beer, rosemary, thyme.

guava, rhubarbe

banana, rosemary, thyme, vanilla pepper rose, black olive, tomato basil, avocado.

You can see a full list of all the flavors here, in case you're interested. Make sure to scroll down to see the sorbet flavors too. It's a little bit insane. (You have to wonder what kind of person would order black olive ice cream!) Anyways with all the options, it took me forever to choose but I decided on one scoop of apple and another scoop of caramel and it was really good!  I may be a little obsessed with gelato...luckily the calories don't count because we walked home, right?
After we got back we met up with the rest of the group to go to the church for an activity with the young single adults. We heard they were going to be making quiche and playing wii-dance, but instead we had sloppy joes and played loup-garou (werewolf.) There was also a game that involved tipping a broom over and calling out someones name-this was entertaining because the French simply cannot say "Heather." It usually comes out as something like "Eeezair" or "Aidair". We had a lot of fun, they were all so kind, friendly and welcoming. They even drove us home after so we didn't have to walk 3 hours.

Laura and I after the church activity!

That's it for my last night in Nice. Italy, here I come!
xoxo Heather