Ain't No Mountain High Enough...

Just when Andy and I thought we had all our problems figured out, a new, huge one came- Mont Blanc. We assumed the hardest part of all this would be securing all the permission necessary, transportation would be easy. There is a woman in Andy's rotary club with a chalet near Mont Blanc in Courmayeur (might be spelt wrong) and her family was going to go up there for the weekend. Andy would ride with them, spend a night there, and then take the train to Annecy. Its a fairly easy train ride from Chamonix (the city on the France side) to Annecy, with only one stop over. Then we found out that there are no trains through the tunnel under Mont Blanc, and there are no buses that Sunday through the tunnel. There is no way that we can ask my host family to spend their day driving to Italy. After hours of work, we came up with options. One is that the woman would drive him the half hour from Courmayeur to Chamonix, where he could get the train to Annecy. This may work out, but we aren't sure, its pretty expensive (36€, I think) to go though the tunnel. The other is that he would get a train from Lecco where he lives to Milan, to Chambery, to Annecy. Whatever happens, he is still going to get here.

Today was a good day, I only had one class, from 8-9 am. After that I set off with the three Mexican girls to Annecy-Le-Vieux. We took the bus to Tannia's house, grabbed a dvd, and walked to Tere's. At Tere's house, she rang the doorbell and waited a second, I heard the door being unlocked, and then Tere pushed it open. I saw a dog in the hallway, but no people. Who would run away after opening the door for us? I asked who else was home, and they all said "just us". And then I asked "but the door...?" "Ohh, the dog opened it." What? No one is ever home to see how it happens, but apparently the dog can unlock the front door by himself. Though extremely impressive, he wouldn't be a good watchdog. He'd just open the door for burglers. After we watched part of the dvd we were getting ready to go back to town for lunch with some other kids when we realized that someone left the backdoor open and the dog had run away (the dog can't open the backdoor apparently). This dog never leaves the house, unlike my family dog who comes and goes all over the neighborhood as she pleases. Tannia and I left to go into town as the other girls combed the area for Pudge. The two of us met up with some other girls for lunch at a church, then I went to the Gare to find info for Andy and then took the bus home. It was raining, so I couldn't run and spent the afternoon drinking tea and going online.