Wednesday August 1st, 2007

Wednesday August 1, 2007
8:57pm Poperidge, Belgium Time
12:57pm Saskatoon Time

Today we decided to go to France for lunch. So, we packed up and headed out the door. We were apparently annoying when we were driving. We asked dad if he was embarrassed of us. "Yes"...."why?"...."cuz you're hidi". We heard Rhianna's 'Umbrella' on the radio, like we do basically everyday, but in France it was different! It was basically the same, but some of the notes were different, and at parts instead of "under my unbrella", it was "and it can last foreva". Weeeeird. Anyways, so yeah, we drove for a couple hours, then stopped at a bakery and got some lunch. Then we headed to the North Sea again, but this time from France, not Belgium. Mom was like, "dad was first in the North Sea from Belgium, whos going to be the first today in France?", then dad was like, "pft, who cares who is in the North Sea first in FRANCE, its still the North Sea, and I was first in it". But, sure enough, once we found a place to park,and headed to the beach, we had to go down a rope down a cliff thing, but then dad booked it, and was first in the North Sea in France. If we looked hard enough, we could see England across the water. Then the tide started coming up, and it rose so fast! It was really scary actually. There were so many rocks on the beach, and i said i was glad i was out of my rock collecting phase, or else we'd be here for hours. Apparently im not completely out of it, because us girls ended up searching for different rocks to make necklaces out of. After we had enough of the beach, we drove for a couple miles, then saw some statue waaaay up on a hill. We decided to go see it. Instead of taking the paved way up, we took the trail up along the side of the hill. All of a sudden, we noticed a little building hidden deep in the hill. There were little stairs up, and little stairs down. We went down the stairs (so carefully because it was so dark, and just freaky), and we looked around the corner, and there were lots of rooms and tunnels!! Turns out this hill was a battle field, and these were places where the soldiers hid, overlooking the fields, and shot out of the holes. Freaky Deaky. There were couple more on the hill, as we continued our way up. We got up to where the statue was h.o.l.y frick it was gorgeous. It was right on a cliff over the Sea. We could see for miles and miles and miles and miles. There were tons of fox holes on top of the hill aswell, and when we looked in the tunnels, they just kept going, but we were to scared to follow them. Plus if we looked far enough, a lot of them turned into crawling holes. That would be the most clausterphobic thing. uuugh. We were right on a cliff of the sea, so we crossed the protective wire, and looked over the cliff. gah, so high! There was another family there with a 3ish year old, and 5ish year old girls. They werent even watching them. I wouldnt let my kids anywhere near that edge. Anyways, it was absolutely gorgeous, but really scary. I got on my hands and knees and looked right over. Dad got us back behind the protective wire as quickly as possible. We headed down the hill and back to our car. We then drove to the town of Wissant that reaked like fish, and walked around, found a bakery, then went to the bathroom, but it was so gross we decided to hold it for 2 hours until we got back to Poperidge. We drove home and had supper. Then mom and dad went for a walk. Tomorrow is England, so we attempted to get to bed early. No such luck.