Mom's Here!

So I feel like I left you all hanging on my dream night, with a dream man. On top of having an mba and all of the fun that goes along with that. He was a photographer, world traveler, pianist, and cook. I'm sure there are a ton of other things to add to the list but I am not sure how much bragging I can do. I had a wonderful night, and again learned a ton from this genius. It was amazing. If anything, I will have left France with one of my 2 goals completed. :)

So the next day my mom came. I showed her around Dijon, and she fell in love with its charm as I have. We went shopping around town in little boutique stores, sorry pops. I took her to an Italian restaurant, for dinner and bottle of wine, needless to say we had an amazing day. We returned the hotel, and called an early night.

Today we woke up and had breakfast. We are going to a museum later today and having fun on this vacation.

I may be staying in France for 3 more months, after receiving a possible job offer for another au pair's maternity leave. It is in Paris, so it would be a wonderful experience!!!

God works in mysterious ways!

XOXO,
Mandy

Tears.

I probably just had the worst experience of my life. I went to a cafe near the twins music lesson with Raphaelle to get a coffee and juice before it was time to pick them up. Thanks to my wonderful bank, when it was time to pay, my card got declined. I left Raphaelle at the cafe and walked across the street to the ATM where again my card was declined, despite me having well over $500 in it. Then the girls got out of music so I walked them to the cafe, while they freaked out I left their sister there. I know looking back it was probably dumb to leave a 5 year old alone for 5 minutes but in my defense I left her with the nice older lady who owned the place. When I got back to the cafe I had to ask the twins to borrow money to pay our 4 Euro tab. Then I broke down and started crying in front of all of them. They must have thought I was crazy. So my love affair with America's Credit Union is now over. Despite my love for the super attractive banker man, I hate them. Before leaving, I informed them I would be in Dijon, FR for the next year, so 'don't think my card is stolen and turn it off.' But thats exactly what they did. I am so mad right now. And will only have ACU to blame if I loose my job over this. I wish I was home right now so I could go to the bank myself and chew them out, so mum I'm leaving it up to you to tell them how mad I am. Make me proud.