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Day 3 (Food glorious food!)
Started another day with dh delivered goodies from Good Morning. Dh also made the coffee this am so I am just thankful the enamel is still on my teeth, so strong but very good. Planned to head to Pinel today but moving slow as we always do on vacation proved to be fortunate. It started to rain and continued to be a ho hum day. My Spidey sense had thought it looked a bit iffy this morning. So we decided to just hang around home base this morning and do our grocery run for Super Bowl evening at Super U with a lunch break at L'Express. We loved it. It is very affordable for seriously tasty fresh food. The croque monsieur was so yummy and the Paris-Brest was to die for. We raided Super U and collected together a great assortment of nibbles and the fixings for Sunday dinner. The cheese section alone was heavenly. I so wish we could get REAL French cheese in the States. The wine... sigh. 2.5 euro Muscadet. 3 euro Loire white. 7 euro Côtes de Gascogne (my favorite). We got back to the condo in time to spiff up and head out to dinner at Le Petit Bistrot. We again started out with a Kir Royal each. Having lusted over my dinner the night before, Dh decided to try the duck confit Parmentier and I had the goat cheese and honey glazed smoked duck breast salad. We shared a bottle of Crozes-Hermitage, a northern Rhône Valley red. Delicious. Dd had the buttery roasted chicken with equally buttery mash. All was great. Dh and I shared a Nutella tiramisu and another old rum for dessert. Yum! Dd had a very yummy dark chocolate ice cream. Another lazy walk back to the condo for the end of The Great Escape with Steve McQueen and then some Tom and Jerry " Is you is or is you ain't my baby?"