3 Days Before Christmas??

Pictures:

1) Snow!!

2) Macaroons (with holes:( , they will be better next time!)

3) Three of the Seven Dwarfs at the Marché de Noel

4) Marché de Noel

5) Temple of Cheese (!!!) at the Marché de Noel

It is now the 22nd of December. It really doesnt feel like it. We havent been doing many Christmas-y things yet. Today I am planning on making sugar cookies for Christmas Eve at Champagny, because they are the most traditional thing I can think of other than gingerbread.

Sophia came got to Lyon on Saturday and stayed up until Last night (Monday night). It was fun, we watched a lot of movies, in French and in English. We watched The Da Vinci Code, National Treasure Book of Secrets, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Happy Feet, and then we went to the theater and saw Avatar:) We also played a lot of card games and went to the Marché de Noel.

Last night Ingrid invited me to dinner at her house. Chloé and Claire also came, and we ate dinner with her mom and two brothers. She made 'mustard noodles' (translated into English) because we had already eaten it one at Chloés house, but it wasnt very good because we were missing some ingredients and were pressed for time, so Ingrid wanted to make it for us to show us that it can be good. And it was! We played fooseball ('babyfoot' in French) and a card game called Cums, I got home around midnight.

Tomorrow we leave for Champagny to get there one day before Christmas Eve to help set up. There will supposedly be 28 people this year, all staying for three days in one house. Then we come back to Lyon on Saturday. Stay here for a day or so and then head up to Groix (small Island in Bretagne) for New Years.

Merry Christmas and Happy News Years everyone!!!