I am going with Lise, her friend Charlotte, and Charlotte’s Spanish boyfriend Juan Lu to Toulon in the south of France. I will be spending a fair amount of time there and even staying for New Years. On the way to Toulon, another girl named Celia carpooled with us because she was headed that way anyway and it made it cheaper for the rest of us. It was more than 12 hours of driving and Lise and Charlotte would switch off every 2 or 3 hours. Lise and Charlotte both brought food for a midday picnic but the weather wasn’t having any of it, so we had an indoor picnic at a rest stop that consisted of tabouleh, bread, ham, various cheeses, soda, and some chocolate cake that Lise and I made prior to leaving. When
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