The next day, we started off by walking down the beach towards the chateau on the hill. On the way, we even went down to the water. After quite a few failed attempts, I finally got my feet wet, and my tights. Oh well. The beaches of Nice were gorgeous, but very different from what I was used to, because the beach is rocky as opposed to sandy. For those of you that have, at some time or another, gotten a little more sand on you than you would have liked, you might think that this sounds nice. Well, not really. It makes it quite difficult to walk on. I guess that's why they have an amazing boardwalk along the beach.
Anyway, once we got to the bottom of the hill, we had to start climbing. It was loads upon loads of stairs to the top. There was a gorgeous view of the beach, the city, the water, and the sky, all melded together into one beautiful landscape. Most of the tourists stopped here and called that it, but we kept on climbing. We stopped ever once in a while for photo ops, but besides that, up we went. After a while, we came to the waterfall that we had seen lit up the night before when we were down in the city. It may have been even prettier by day. Our next stop was the very top of the mountain where there was a 360 panoramic view of Nice. It even came equipped with a guitarist. After enjoying the sun up there for a few minutes, we began our descent.
On the way down, we came across a gnarled tree that was bent just enough to create a seat from which you could look out over all of Nice. I jumped up to have Kyle take my picture. He took it then told me he had to take another one, because I was not smiling. Immediately, I was confused because I had been smiling. But then, he walked over and slid a ring on the third finger of my left hand, and told me to try again. Needless to say, he definitely got a big smile. Once he got his picture, he came over and asked me to marry him, and I said yes!
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful in comparison. We did some shopping and had some really good pizza. Probably the coolest thing about our pizza was the oil that they gave us to put on top of it. It was olive oil with red peppers in side of it. So instead of putting pepper flakes on pizza, we got to put pepper oil on it. It was great. The hotness was perfectly dispersed. We had some really good beer with our pizza, pink Morroccan beer. First of all, I did not know that they made pink beer, let alone beer that is sweet. It was quite an enlightening experience.
After a little more walking, shopping, and me starring at my gorgeous new ring, we headed of to find our hostel. It was a little ways out of the city, so it had a shuttle from the nearest tram station. I must say the drivers were crazy. I am not sure how far up the hillside we went, but we sure got there fast!
Later that night, we headed out on the town for the last time. The second day of Carnival consisted of an hour long parade. The figures were amazing. They weren't flowers or pomp like you would find in the States. They were paper mache with real fabric sewn onto them for clothes. I had never seen anything like it.
And that Nice: Water, sky, mountains, engagement, and all!
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