What a day! First, Marty and Scott took a long walk to the grocery store

Then it was time for Villefranche’s annual “crazy parade with dancing ladies followed by throwing flowers from boats” festival (we’re still not exactly sure what they were celebrating – but it was FUN!!!).

Marty did some research: The event is called “Naval battle of Flowers” and it was suppose to take place on the day when we were just landing in Nice, but it was postponed to today due to the bad weather on Monday. Seems the origin of this event has something to do with seamen, flowers and women. Probably similar to how our rose festival and naval ships got started.

We sat at a sidewalk cafe for the parade, then stood by the water and caught flowers with all of the locals. Surreal but such a good time…

After that we took the train to Monaco to see the palace, the yachts and the casino where we lost some euros and saw lots of expensive cars!