20:23 Monday
14 June 2010 Toulouse
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Organize for the day. No shower necessary because I douched upon return last evening. Out into the rain. What happened to too hot? Bah. I’m from Seattle. This is barely rain and it feels warm enough not to bother. Was probably even still a bit too warm for most. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times: I’d rather be too hot than too cold. Merci, Toulouse.
We went to the car glass place (conveniently called Carglass) and found that it’s a mechanical problem they can’t deal with. Seems all these excellent German car makers are using this stupid little plastic part in the window mechanism (a common failure for BMW, Audi, Mercedes, &c). We will have to go to a dealer or a parts place and get the part and have some mechanic fix it. Not happening today. The glass dude totally hooked us up by putting the glass back in a closed position. No more passenger window. C’est la view.
We went into a grocery to fill up le frigo. All sorts of stuff. Now we can eat our snack meals here with ease. We also picked up a squeegee for keeping the terrace surface clear of standing water (well, once it stops raining).
Then we went downtown again and visited the Musee des Augustins. Fucking wow. Old (and current) church. Possibly a monastery or abbey or cloister or some such originally. Now it’s mostly museum. The church part was closed today. At least the door was locked. Maybe they saw us coming?
I recognized several pieces from art history classes, but it was overwhelming to suffer (pleasantly) the inundation of works of art lining the walls and halls of this ancient building. Yes, fucking wow indeed. Three euros well spent.
Wandered all over some more. Finally got a card reader so I can offload images to my lappy (and subsequently upload them). I’ll likely just vomit them onto some snapshot posting site in daily buckets, but it’s coming. Raw and dangerous.
It’s snack time for now though. We shall see what the remainder of the evening has to offer.
