The Cow Story Or: How Allegra and I Almost Died in France

Disclaimer: If you care a great deal about my health/well-being, maybe don't read this because it might scare you.

Transcribed from my journal 21/09/2010

So. I'm in the country living the country life. After the hard work of the day was done, Allegra and I decided to g for a walk. We made our way down a big hill and into a field. To our left, I thought I spied a bunch of sheep. We walked up to the barbed fire fence surrounding the field and upon further examination discovered that they were actually cows. I think it was mostly my idea, and we were both thirsting after some adventure, so we deiced to shimmy our way under the fence, through some prickly bushes, and a bunch of stinging nettle. Allegra was wearing flip flops. Flips flops! Oww. We finally got to the actual field, take some pictures of ourselves, and approach the cows. But we weren't really paying attention because we were concentrating too hard on not stepping in the very large cow pies. I realized it before Allegra but when we were, I don't know, thirty feet, maybe? away, that all the cows were staring at us and slowly making their way towards us. I nudge Allegra and say "um.. Allegra? The cows are all staring at us." She looks up and now they are trotting directly at us. Allegra starts springing, but something in the back of my head remembered that running from big animals is a bad idea. So I crouch behind this bush thing but quickly discover that cows are smarter than they look and they all know I'm there. So I run as fast i can, directly straight so as to not leave time for the cows (who are charging now, no big deal) to catch up with us. Directly straight is into some sort of thorny berry bush, but we just charge right into it because there's no where else to go and the cows are almost on top of us. We sort of found a place of respite for a little bit, but I was still unsure if we were going to live through this adventure or not. Even though we were surrounded by thorny berry bushes, we had left a trail behind us, and the cows were still sort of edging closer. So Allegra finally plunges ahead of me and we just make our way through those bushes despite the pain. And finally, THANK GOODNESS, we made it back to the fence. Thank goodness we are alive! Oh my gosh. We are soo stupid. Anyways, as we walked through the other (cow-less) field, we saw all of the cows gathered around still staring us down.
This all went down about half an hour ago. I'm still all shaken up. So freaked out. But thankful to be alive!

What a crazy experience. Aside from that, this past week was absolutely amazing in every aspect. I loved every second. I think I have a new goal in life to own a farm. I'll post some more beajolais stories soon, but for now I need to go to bed.



Two very stupid girls.



Why we were so distracted.



I think I'm scarred for life.