I’m on a bus

And then, just like that our France trip was over and one morning I found myself on a bus shuttle headed for the Marseille airport.

I decided I wanted the window seat.

So I took it.

On a bus

At least Nicholas still had the privilege of sitting beside me.  Plus I reminded myself about the train incident.  I deserved the window seat this time.

On a bus with Nicholas

I’m on a train

2012-08-24 15.26.40After staying in the Uzes country side we made our way to Marseille.

I was excited to go on my first european train ride.

I thought I’d be writing all about the scenic country side and how Nicholas and I were bonding over our travels together.

Instead I’m writing to say that Nicholas stuck me in a net.

That’s right.  My supposed best bear bud stuck me in a net for our first-ever-train-ride-together-in-europe.

There will be payback.

Uzes life

After my near brush with death, I found myself in a country home in Uzes.

Since I couldn’t get wifi in my room for gaming, I was forced instead to climb bushes, drink hot chocolate and sit by the pool.  I guess that’s not such a hard life.

In an olive bush:

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Sipping hot chocolate:

Sipping hot chocolate

Chill-laxing by the pool:

Hanging out by the pool

Highway of near death

sumiinfranceThis one time Nicholas almost tried to kill me.

There I was, with my best bear bud and a car full of other humans driving from Thonon to Uzes across the country of France.

I was being a responsible bear and I buckled in.  But there we were, in the middle of nowhere at 3:00am in the morning when the car blew out a tire.

I just tried to pretend like it didn’t happen and tried to go back to sleep but you must understand a bumpy road with a blown tire is very uncomfortable for a small bear like me.

If it had happened when we were still actually on the highway like we were the previous 5 hours of the journey I wouldn’t be writing this post but thankfully we had just gotten off the highway and so it just meant we ruined the car driving metal on gravel the rest of the way to our destination.

So instead I get to write about the time Nicholas almost killed me.