Thursday May 24: Historical stops!

Today we traveled on the bus to visit Glanum, outside of St. Remy du Provence. Glanum contains ancient ruins that we got to walk through and explore. After that some of us got to walk through the small town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provedence and the hospital where Vincent Van Gogh spent the last years of his life. If was awesome to be able to walk around and see things like the olive trees that he actually painted. We also say the room where he stayed. Then we continued to walk into two to meet the rest of the group. There we caught a bite to eat and did just a little bit of shopping. The. We hopped back on the bus to head to Pont du Gard. This is the highest Roman bridge aqueduct in Europe! Walking on that and seeing how it worked was pretty awesome! Some of us also soaked our feet in the ice cold water! Many great photos were taken here at the bridge. Then we drove back to the hotel where we had free time until supper. A couple of people swam in the pool, which seemed to be kind of cold since the hot sun went behind the clouds. Oh, did I mention the whole day was extremely hot, probably around the mid 80's (degrees F). Much warmer than the rest of the trip! After supper, Kayla Kauffman, and I watched the movie 300, except it was in French! How exciting! Then after a long, warm, and tiring day we hit the hay! -Lauren Weaver, Hesston, KS