Gettin' A Move On

It has been a while since my last post and a lot has happened since then. I am now living in my new apartment in Saint-Sulpice. It has been a few weeks now and we are settling in quite nicely. Most of our furniture is bought and everything is pretty much arranged how we want it.

We had our apartment warming party this past weekend and it was a wonderful turnout. Mathieu’s sister and brother-in-law came, along with many of his friends from college and where he use to live up in Riom. I cooked Jambalaya for dinner for everyone, and it came out wonderfully. The only problem is that the pot wasn’t really that big enough so there was a small hill of rice that could be seen over the pot.  After we had our fill of good Cajun cooking we buried our faces in one of the desserts and drank away the rest of the night, and played games and sang songs.

Since moving to our new place, time to time there are big pockets of nothing to do. So, I go about searching on what I could do for the day to make time not pass so painfully. I do things inside, but after a while I get restless; I’m not fond of staying indoors for long periods of time. Then I would just meander around the town, looking for something to preoccupy myself with: taking a café at a bar and read a book, window shop, sight see. But in Saint-Sulpice, the majority can all be done in one day. So, I just bumble around town or buzz around the apartment finding things to do.

I finally started to meet some people in the town as well. Mathieu had a match last Sunday and after the game we went back to the clubhouse and had drinks and dinner with the team. I met a few of the players and the President of the team who seemed to be rather pleasant. I also chatted with some of the girlfriends and wives of the players. It was nice to socialize.

This weekend Mathieu and I are going to go up to the Pyrenees for Cazaux-Fest, a small little gathering in the village where his grandmother lives. I think it will be interesting to see a country-like festival in France.