Thursday through the weekend

Thursday it was sunny again!!!  I ran in the park before class again.  After school we decided to take advantage of the pretty weather, so we went up to the top of Fourvriere Hill (highest point in Lyon) and did another walking tour. 

We saw:

Fouvriere Basilica

Lyon’s oldest cemetery, Loyasse, Lyon’s equivalent to Paris’ Pere Lachaise

Roman aqueducts

Roman theaters, discovered in 1933

Five Roman tombs, discovered in 1885

Doug’s favorite, the Church of St. Irenaeus (early church father)… the crypt contains his tomb

Roman baths

 

Thursday night we had Matt and Laura over for supper.  We had a hearty salad from one of the recipe books Pamela loaned us, goat-cheese toasts, pasta from the other recipe book, herb roasted potatoes, and peach cobbler.

 

Friday I ran again- 4 days in a row!  After school, my class had a picnic by the Rhone river to close our cuisine unit.  It was really great weather and fun. 

 

When I got home, Doug and I went back and sat by the Rhone for a long time.  We also went and looked at the big pool by the Rhone.  It wasn’t very much to get in- just 2.40 euros a person.  BUT, American style male swimwear (swimshorts) were STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, as it is for some reason deemed unsanitary to wear these in pools in France.  Doug will elaborate on this more later…

 

For supper we went out to Chez Mounier, a very reasonably priced Lyonnais restaurant.  It was great!  We walked around the Opera house/ Hotel de Ville afterwards (the whole area is lit up at night)

 

Saturday morning we did a run to Carrefour run and got breakfast at the Brioche Doree at the mall and checked e-mail.  We also went to Decathlon so Doug could get appropriate swimwear for the pool.

 

We ate lunch and then went to the pool… interesting process- you have to wear your swimsuit ONLY to be allowed in the pool area.  I tried to go in with my cover-up tank top and skirt over my swimsuit… this is evidently strictly forbidden and considered unsanitary.  Anyway, once we finally got to the pool it was nice.  It was so hot today!  The pool ended up getting pretty crowded while we were there.   I think there were a thousand people there by the time we left.  It was crazy!

 

Yesterday was Fete de la Musique, a national celebration.  We went out about 7 and stayed out til 11.  There were bands everywhere!  We walked around Bellecour, Place des Jacobins, Vieux Lyon, and Hotel de Ville. 

 

This morning church was a sauna!  I was burning up the whole time and the sermon was extra-long.  We are tempted to go back to the pool today, but it would probably be even more swamped than yesterday.  So, after e-mails we are going to go to the park and see if we can rent a peddle/paddle boat.