Other Happenings in Toulouse

When we're not traveling, Dave and I try to keep busy and have fun right here in Toulouse. Last time I told you about our "French" weekend of cassoulet and the St. Aubin market. We had a lot of fun that weekend. Besides that weekend we've also been up to some other adventures.

A while ago, Toulouse had its first (and only) snow fall of the year! We don't get a lot of snow here, as we are close to the boarder to Spain. That's right it's usually sunny skies or rain here. It does get chilly, but not Canada chilly. We like the weather, but I have to admit I was missing having at least some snow. So, when we finally got a snowy night we had to go out and play. Dave and I put on our coats and bundled up in our hats and mitts to head out on a snowy, winter walk. We had fun playing in the snow and "somebody" (who knows who, really? could have been anybody) threw a snow ball at Dave. We also built a tiny snowman. The snow was perfect for snowman building, it was the right amount of sticky! But, by morning, the snow was gone and our little snowman melted away (RIP friend). It was a fun night while it lasted and I'm glad we at least got one snowfall to give us a taste of winter. Of course, that was several weeks ago and now it is definitely spring here in Toulouse. The sun is shining and it is warming up. Last week we had temperatures up to 31 degrees (sorry Canadian friends and family, feel free to hate me, I understand). I can't believe it's this hot in April! As much as I missed the snow, I think that one snow fix was enough and I'm so happy to have such hot weather now! We enjoyed some time in the sun and had our first (of many) patio visits downtown. I love patio season and I am thrilled that it's starting already!

Snow!

Plants all covered in snow!

Our snowman

Look it's us, walking in the snow!

Tree in the back of our building

Enjoying the sun

Mmmmm patio beers

We also had some fun celebrating St.Patrick's Day at our favourite Irish pub De Danu. We got up early to make it there for opening at 11am as we figured the only Irish pub would be packed. However, we forgot that we live in France and while the French are great, they do not show up early for things. In fact, they usually show up late or just on time. We also forgot, that perhaps the French aren't as hardcore about celebrating St.Patrick's Day as we are used to back home. So, when we got to De Danu we had no problem getting a table, as there was practically no one there yet haha. We had fun anyway and ordered a pint of Guinness to start our celebration off right! It was delicious and by the time we were finishing them, the pub was starting to get busy. We stuck around to have another pint and some of the delicious burgers for lunch. Then Dave just had to get one of the free hats they were giving out (Dave loves free things...but really, who doesn't?). After that, we decided to call it an afternoon and headed home to relax (an "afternoon", oh my gosh we're old now, we went home in the afternoon on St.Patrick's Day!). It wasn't as crazy a celebration as we've had in the past, but it was fun anyway. And it was nice to spend some time at our favourite hang out De Danu, we hadn't been there in awhile.

De Danu

Love me some Guinness

Dave enjoys Guinness too

Oh thank goodness! Finally filling up!

A few weeks later we were off to Paris for a visit, but that's a story for another post.

Until next time...

Au revoir