So the France views are likely me (by the way these are the view statistics for this blog for yesterday), Canada is any one of you Canadian people whom I would expect to be reading this, but who are these mysterious Russians and single mysterious American? Strange, no?
By good friend Francois Hollande was victorious as you've no doubt heard. We're hoping he'll get right on giving us some extra holidays. I mean, next week I have to work Monday, Tuesday, AND Wednesday... Ugh...
Last weekend we went on a long bike ride through the mountains and did one short climb with an 18% grade. That may not sound like much but IT IS. In fact, it's insane. The famous Alpe d'Huez's most inclined section is only about 10.5%. I could do that on a unicycle!* It was crazy. We didn't get THAT high up, though. Grenoble is quite low in terms of elevation. We are at around 210m above sea level. At the peak of our climb we hit just under 1000m I THINK but definitely at least 700m because I saw a sign at one point. L'Alpe d'Huez, on the other hand, is between 1500 and 3000 m or something like that so although it's not necessarily the steepest, the climb is long and you get a lot higher. We're thinking of maybe going next weekend (not this weekend as in tomorrow/sunday but the NEXT) so hopefully that will happen...
We bought a coffee maker that is really amazing. It's essentially a gift from Xerox. I will post pictures soon.
* Actually I've never even tried to ride a unicycle, so maybe I couldn't.
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