Trainspotting

Today we started our journey from Italy to France. Mommy and Daddy woke Aunt Tracy and me up at 5 AM to get ready and get to the train station. We took a really fast train from Veneiza Mestre to Milan, I slept most of the way. Our next train was from Milan to Nice in France. I guess they don’t teach the Italians in school the correct way to stand in line and wait your turn because it was a mad rush to get on the train and nobody felt the need to let me go first – I was the youngest after all.

The train stopped in Genoa and most of the Italians got off and the Americans got on, we sat next to a couple from Seattle. I noticed the gentleman put ear plugs in partway through the trip; I wonder what that was about. I felt I was pretty well behaved. When we got to Nice we had to beg for train reservations on the TGV train I batted my eyelashes and the lady got us on the trains we needed.

Finally 4 trains later we arrived in Avignon only to have to wait another hour for our rental car lady to come back from a break. When we got our rental car we met Grammy and Grandpa to drive 45 minutes to the farmhouse. I was so tired that I cried most of the 45 minute drive. Along the way we were stopped at a random French police checkpoint and Daddy had to take a breathalyzer test. He laughed and said that it was a worthless stop because we had hardly ate anything all day much less drank anything.

The farmhouse is very rustic but I think my bed is probably the most comfortable in the house, Mommy and Daddy made me a bed with a nice blanket on the floor. I slept well and was glad to be done with the train travel for a while.