When we were driving along the south coast of France towards Arles, we saw PINK FLAMINGOS in the water! Apparently they are the symbol of the region of Camargue. Since flamingos are my favorite bird I got a tad excited and ran as close as I could to get a picture. Here’s the pathetic photo I got (anyone want to buy me a dSLR with a telephoto lens?)

I was so blinded by my excitement about the flamingos that I ended up running through some nasty muck and got my shoes and pants all gross. Yay! Ocean scented. Except it’s not the good ocean scent, it’s the nasty rotten seaweed/dead fish ocean scent. Good thing we had lots of napkins.

After we started doing some more driving, flamingo stuff started showing up everywhere. Apparently this area is all about their flamingos and wild horses. I’ll stick to the flamingos, thanks! Even the wine places had flamingos on their labels (we skipped on the flamingo wine, hopefully that wasn’t a huge mistake.. haha) France, and most of the other countries we went to, were all about putting statues and other symbols in the middle of the roundabouts (of which we probably drove through hundreds):

We stopped at this little shack type thing on the side of the road to see what flamingo stuff they had… it was mostly generic stuff, sadness. But, I got this sweet picture with this huge flamingo lawn ornament. I totally need one of these for our yard.

Posted by Carrie on Monday, April 25, 2011
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