Reba Lives: The Bucket List.

I have to tell ya. I've been checking things off my bucket list since I got here. I've actually realized the dream of being a world traveler. I've gone up the Eiffel Tower at midnight. I've ridden a louge down the side of the Swiss Alps. I've wine toured in France. I've danced in a public square to music I'd never heard. I witnessed The David, The Venus De Milo, Mona Lisa and St. Peter's Basilica up close and personal. And now, finally, I've sunbathed topless on a European beach. It. Was. So. Liberating!! Now, I believe, there are two things a girl can do that solve every problem in life. One is the time tested, Grandma Joyce approved "Take a hot bubble bath with candles and wine, put on your makeup, do your hair, and get dressed up." This remedy has solved a host of problems over my young lifetime. The second is...sunbathing topless on a European beach. I don't know if it's the extra boost of vitamin D to my system or if it was the liberating feeling of breaking my modest, American girl mold, but I feel great today after a double whammy, girlified, combo of both.

Ally and I took a leisurely stroll down the harbor side yesterday and found a pebble beach. If there's one thing Monterosso taught us it's that a non-sandy beach is awesome for not getting sand in your nooks and crannies!! We love pebble beaches. If anyone knows of any good ones in the states please leave a comment on the blog of where it is and how quickly we can plan a trip there on my return. We decided, for our first time, it would be good to find a less commercial beach to lay on. The beach we chose was perfect with just a sprinkling of families and young people apparently all looking to tan their ta-tas! Of course, Ally and I, being the good Americans that we are, blinded most of them with our deafeningly white girly parts. I don't think these kittens have ever seen the light of day...and so...we may or may not be a slight shade of pink this morning...and not from embarrassment.

When we got home from our beach excursion we completed phase two of the proven "cure any ailment" remedy. We got all dolled up for a night on the town! Mark and Lisa took us to their favorite Indian food restaurant in Antibes and then Ally and I left them to find some good, old fashioned, fun. Today is Bastille Day so the French will be celebrating their national holiday all weekend. Ally and I found a dance to go to and I sat, sipping my first well made vodka and soda with lime since I've been here!! Well...vodka and perrier...these people do not know how to do a good mixer...

I have just five days left to my trip and I will, undoubtedly, be checking more things off the bucket list in that short amount of time. It's a race to the finish and I'm in the lead!!

Peace, Love and Travel,
Reba