Chateau de Pau and a typical French day

This morning started our second week of class. I feel like I am learning, but it's so hard to remember everything. I recently started remembering things mainly by the first letter of the word, which I haven't really done before. It's quite strange. After class and a nice lunch of salad, cheese, bread, and coffee, our group headed to the Chateau de Pau, but not before stopping at a local chocolate shop to get some free samples. They have special chocolate covered raisins that were amazing.

 You can actually see this chateau from our apartment, and it's really beautiful. The tour was pretty boring, and the history wasn't all that interesting, but it was pretty. The chateau has the largest tapestry collection ever outside of Paris. The tapestries mainly depicted hunting scenes, and their advanced age proceeded to make the majority of the group sneeze.

These tapestries were threaded with real gold. 

After the chateau we walked around and stopped for some lovely refreshments. Spending time at an outdoor cafe was wonderfully relaxing and French.