I'm so international.

Note to self: the joke "oh hey, J.C., how's it hanging?" doesn't go over well when standing in front of a crucifix in a cathedral.

Today was another ridiculously long day. We went to Abbaye aux l'hommes, which was really cool. The tour was in all French, which wasn't a problem, until my ADD kicked in.

Then we headed to a WWII museum. Holy depressing. I mean, obviously nothing was going to be uplifting, but I was pretty depressed for the rest of the day after going there. Sidenote: there were wayyy too many kids there. I was very close to drop-kicking all of them. Even the cute British ones. Anyway, it was kind of hard to enjoy it while tripping over small children.

Next was one of the beaches of Normandy. Again, very depressing. It's hard to enjoy such beautiful scenery when you know the history behind it all. I kept imagining dead bodies all over the beach. How morbid.

The last place we went to had the tapestry of Bayeux. Not my cup of tea. I mean, it's really old, and impressive that's it has survived so long, but I was just not into it. Plus the little headset things they gave us to listen to smelled bad. There's a cathedral in the same area as the tapestry, which is where I said the faux-pas. Whoops. Some people just can't take jokes...

in the cathedral near the tapestry

I love the name of this restaurant. Brilliant.

War remains and such.

A view of one of the beaches of Normandy

In the war museum. The bench says, "forbidden for Jews"