Pastry Wednesday

My days in Lyon are coming to a close, and it's really freaking me out. I'm realizing I'm in serious denial about goodbyes, after consciously saying, "see you later!" to several people who I am most definitely not going to see later. Unless "later" means "possibly never and definitely not in the near future." I keep thinking everywhere I walk that it could be the last time I see this view or the last time I have to run past that homeless man to avoid his drunken advances. I'm getting quite nostalgic, and as a very non-nostalgic person, it's very unnerving. I'm really grateful for the few days I'll have after my travels for unfinished business/mad picture taking binge session to make up for the lack of photos that have occurred in Lyon.

Today, attempting to be productive and buy some last minute gifts, I wandered around the city for the majority of the day. Despite the fact that I only bought two gifts (and one was for myself, whoops) I felt fairly accomplished. Having also eaten an unnecessary amount of chips, I was going to forego Pastry Wednesday due to looming swimsuit season (ugh). But THEN I realized I only had a 5 euro bill and I needed coins to buy a metro ticket in the morning on my journey to the airport, as I'm heading off to Italy for the next few weeks. So obviously the solution was to purchase a mini gâteau in the Banette near my house. It was so worth the calories.