Premier jour entier

To begin, here's a shot of Elyse with nos premieres bieres a la Belle Epoque, un cafe/bar on the Cours Mirabeau, Aix's main/most famous street, which Dad remembers fondly.
And our view from the cafe...I should figure out how to do all the accent marks so my franglais can be correct...

Until just a few minutes ago, we had only met one of our apartment-mates, Kevin, who leaves a little to be desired. He arrived shortly after Elyse with his girlfriend and asked our names and if Elyse needed help carrying her suitcases upstairs, although as she pointed out, he seemed disappointed when she said yes. That was all we saw of him until that night, when we spent about ten minutes trying to get our door unlocked, and he just yelled something in French before finally coming down and opening it for us. He was throwing a party of sorts that I think was just him, his girlfriend, and another friend, who was way friendlier and came upstairs to meet us, since we weren't really invited to the "party."

We did run into him last night with some other friends, and he was a little nicer, although he doesn't seem very interested in getting to know the people living with him. Besides that, he cooked some sort of fish on Friday night and has left the kitchen a mess since then. Elyse just manned up and cleaned everything. I've just been staying away from that room and eating elsewhere in the house...like in the garden.

Then Elyse went on a cleaning spree, and Renaud (other French housemate) walked in and started talking to us, asking if the place hadn't been clean when we arrived since Elyse was vacuuming. Funny thing--Renaud looks A LOT like Kevin, whom we haven't seen enough of to be able to recognize that well. She shortly told him no, it wasn't clean and went back into the kitchen. I started to realize it was Renaud when he said that he had been on a motorbike tour, so we chatted a bit (he's really nice), and when he left, I told Elyse it was Renaud, and she felt bad for being impolie. Then Renaud came back in a few minutes later wearing different clothes, and I could only see him from behind, so when Elyse asked me if it was Kevin before calling out to him, I said yes. He laughed a little and said Kevin was the other one. I really wish they didn't have the same hair-cut.