Yay for France

Well, we lost big at Montecarlo - I lost 20 in the slots (video poker) and 10 at the craps table. I went and changed my money into chips and then they told me the table had a 10 minimum! I only played one round. All the signs at the other tables had a 2 minimum so I assumed craps was the same, but it was not! I felt pretty stupid. Steve lost 20 also in the video poker - we were not at the big famous casino because it's only for fancy people, apparently and it cost 10/person just to go inside! And it had a dresscode, so we decided it was too rich for our blood.

We stayed in Nice last night at a pretty cool little hotel for less than we expected to pay here in Southern France - and today, we're doing a load of laundry and then going to head to Barcelona. From there, we may go to Paris or up to Normandie. We're not sure yet, exactly.

We're having a good time and we have decided that of all the places we've been so far, on both our trips, France is by far our favorite. It is clean and the people are friendly - I'm not sure why it gets such a bad rap for being rude - we haven't found that to be the case at all.

Our electrical converter was faulty and has fried our laptop power cord, so now we're stuck using internet cafes - i don't know how often we'll have time to get to one between now and when we come home, so i'm not sure when i will have the chance to write again.