Toulouse! (Deuxième Partie)

Gargoyles at the Couvent des Jacobins

Couvent des Jacobins

After lunch, we headed over to the Musée and Couvent des Jacobins. As you can probably guess, this was both a museum and a church. The church part was really pretty, with lots of statues and a huge organ. The museum part had a lot of religious statues, and there was also a pretty courtyard in the middle with a garden and a row of fifteen gargoyles! And yes... I did take photos with all of them...

Cathédrale Saint Étienne

Next, we went to the Cathédrale Saint Étienne. I know, I know, how does one city have so many amazing churches from the 16th/17th/18th centuries?! There were even more that we didn't make it to! The cathedral was huge and beautiful, with really elaborate statues and really fancy wooden seating for the choir.

Canal du Midi

Then, we walked around a little and made our way to the Canal du Midi. Even though it was in the middle of some busy streets, it was just slightly more picturesque than the Contra Costa Canal. We were pretty exhausted at this point, so we sat on a (somewhat questionable but we were tired) bench for a while. After resting our feet (I thought mine were going to fall off at that point), we went back to Le Capitole and found a place to eat. Sandwich and soda for less than 3€! Ouais!! (Soda is hella expensive here, so it was pretty exciting.) Then we got frozen yogurt! At the second frozen yogurt shop I have seen my whole time in France! I was really excited because it said "yogurt glacé" on the sign, which is half French! (Niceberry just said "frozen yogurt.") I have to admit, the yogurt was only so-so, and the only option was plain with one topping. A little weak. Now that I'm writing this, I'm craving frozen yogurt again. Must return to Niceberry! With personal spoon!

We ate our yogurt as we walked back to the train station. Our retour train left around 9:00 and got back around 11:00. It was a little faster because there was only one stop. Unfortunately, I never got to see the scenery because I passed out on the way there (apparently the train made like 10 stops before Toulouse; I have no recollection of this), and it was dark on the way back. We were all super tired and had sore feet; I was practically lying down in my seat! Overall, Toulouse was really fun! And I'm glad we were able to do it in a day, so we didn't have to deal with finding a place to stay and everything. 

Also this was set to post like a week ago, and I didn't realize that Blogger never posted it! Sorry for the delay :( .