Here are some photos from our quick trip to the Alps.
Daniel had the hardest job!
Claire had it pretty easy!
Cheese!
The snow never stopped falling!
Frozen, but still having fun!Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Let it Snow!
Since we are awaiting the arrival of Baby Boy Kilcoyne sometime within the next month, our holiday travel was greatly restricted. However, we WERE able to travel about 2 hours up the road from Marseille, and we found SNOW!
Here are some photos from our quick trip to the Alps.
Claire had it pretty easy!
Cheese!
The snow never stopped falling!
Frozen, but still having fun!
Here are some photos from our quick trip to the Alps.
Claire had it pretty easy!Cheese!The snow never stopped falling! Frozen, but still having fun!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Christmas Dinner
First of all, we need to apologize for the LONG break we have taken from doing this blog. It won't happen again. (Or, rather, we probably WILL take a long break again at some point, but I hope it won't be for months and months this time!)
Now, I have to talk about the amazing French meal we participated in on Christmas day. I say "participated in" because it was a lunch that lasted for about 5 hours! Thank you, Marjorie, for inviting us to spend a wonderful day with your family. It made it a little easier to be so far away from our own families on such a special holiday.
When we celebrate Thanksgiving here in France, we have to special order the turkeys in advance because turkeys are primarily for Christmas here. Well, we had an amazing, awesome turkey on Christmas. It was served with a type of stuffing that involved liver and nuts (sounds weird, but it was yummy). But, the turkey, potatoes, stuffing, green beans, etc. were the 2nd course!
The first course started with salmon mousse and foie gras (goose-liver pate). Once again, sounds very interesting, but was oh-so-good!
The third course was the cheese course. That was good, too!
Then, we had the traditional Christmas dessert. It is a bouche de Noel. It is like a Yule Log, but you eat it! So, just picture a long, skinny, fancy cake that is made to look like a log! We had a chocolate mousse and rasberry cake.
Here in the Provence region of France, there is another traditional dessert, so we had to eat that one, too! Actually, it is called the 13 Desserts, and if you eat all 13 of them, you are supposed to have good luck for the next year. The 13 Desserts is really just 13 smaller desserts that are served together (chocolate, special Christmas candies called Papillotes, nuts, dried fruit, etc.)
Well, I just wanted to share! Thanks for drooling-- I mean READING!
Now, I have to talk about the amazing French meal we participated in on Christmas day. I say "participated in" because it was a lunch that lasted for about 5 hours! Thank you, Marjorie, for inviting us to spend a wonderful day with your family. It made it a little easier to be so far away from our own families on such a special holiday.
When we celebrate Thanksgiving here in France, we have to special order the turkeys in advance because turkeys are primarily for Christmas here. Well, we had an amazing, awesome turkey on Christmas. It was served with a type of stuffing that involved liver and nuts (sounds weird, but it was yummy). But, the turkey, potatoes, stuffing, green beans, etc. were the 2nd course!
The first course started with salmon mousse and foie gras (goose-liver pate). Once again, sounds very interesting, but was oh-so-good!
The third course was the cheese course. That was good, too!
Then, we had the traditional Christmas dessert. It is a bouche de Noel. It is like a Yule Log, but you eat it! So, just picture a long, skinny, fancy cake that is made to look like a log! We had a chocolate mousse and rasberry cake.
Here in the Provence region of France, there is another traditional dessert, so we had to eat that one, too! Actually, it is called the 13 Desserts, and if you eat all 13 of them, you are supposed to have good luck for the next year. The 13 Desserts is really just 13 smaller desserts that are served together (chocolate, special Christmas candies called Papillotes, nuts, dried fruit, etc.)
Well, I just wanted to share! Thanks for drooling-- I mean READING!
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