2 avril 2011 - Gymnastics meet in Mérignac

SAMEDI
Les fruits frais, des copains pour vie! Fresh fruit are for life!
A truck in the parking lot where the head coach of Sarlat's gymnastics team picked me at 7:30am and we began the journey east to Mérignac.
Arrived in Mérignac, a suburb of Bordeaux, where the Aquitaine regional meet took place for compulsory levels. 
Sarlat took fourth place (blue and white leos) as a team. 
The food selection consisted of baguette sandwiches, crêpes, croque monsieurs, fries, candy kababs... quite different from US meets.
The older girls from Sarlat took first place as a team.
One of the mom's of a gymnasts drove me home. We crossed over the Pont d'Aquitaine (Bridge of Aquitaine) on the way toward Sarlat. At night one cannot take in the size of it, but it is a substantial bridge. It was beautiful watching the French countryside pass under the stars, which were incredibly visible. I arrived back in Sarlat just after midnight.