Dijon: Before we visited the Burgundy palace where we met a French Mormon museum guard (he was so happy to see us and amazed our entire group was LDS), we stowed away our suitcases behind a bar for safekeeping. Awesome, right? Also, we saw the Well of Moses, a beautiful sculptural grouping of Old Testament prophets done in exquisite Northern Renaissance detail (Ps. sculpture is extremely rare in the Northern Renaissance tradition!). We were able to go inside and really study it, instead of just viewing it through glass as my professor's had to do each time she's come to see it. (Side note: it's placed inside the courtyard of an insane asylum). Before leaving, I had an incredible hamburger with this delicious mustard/fry sauce sauce (that was repetitive) so I've now had Dijon mustard in Dijon! For dessert, I was excited to try this piece of "chocolate" cake. It wasn't chocolate. Luckily, the French can even make prune fruitcake scrumptious. ;)
Beaune: The main thing I want to note about this town was that they clean the streets with great smelling soap!! So vastly different from Paris, I can't even tell you. Not only was it clean, but we stumbled upon a fun Renaissance fair thing on our way out from seeing a beautifully detailed altar piece. My favorite was this king guy who followed out group around proclaiming his love not only in French, but Spanish, Italian, and English as well. He was great.
Colmar: Our final resting place! (I really do feel dead.) We arrived fairly late, but went on a walk through the ville so we could see the night life. After we crossed these little canals on bridges lined with flowers, we immediately saw the most adorable half-timbered houses that made me feel like I was in Beauty and the Beast :D Seriously. It was too cute!
Though today was long (like this blog post), it was worth it! Au revoir!
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