I have Snowflakes in my Eyes

You better all be enjoying your holidays, cause it's back to school day in France. And isn't it lovely, the day we go back, it starts to full on snow. If there's one thing worse than leaving the house in the dark to go to school, it's leaving the house in the dark and the snow. Just hope I don't break a leg or something.

Sorry for not posting for so long (I'm sure you're all dying to know what I'm up to anyway), but it was hard to get on a computer during the holidays. It's in Marine's room, and she was working most of the time. I can't believe how much holiday homework they were given.

Anyways, last week we went into the Louvre. It was awesome, we were walking around for hours and still didn't see the whole thing. Afterwards we went out for dinner to a restaurant in Paris. It was, like, 10 pm and I was starving. The menus were weird, they were printed in english on the back, and down the bottom they had the "win of the day". I wonder if they even really get that many english customers. We had crepes with nutella for desert, man were they good.

I must say that Emma's family seems to eat very differently to mine. We have never had crepes for dinner (or even at all, at home), and no caramel either. And half the time we have fruit for dessert as well. That being said, yesterday we had the Galette du Roi, which is this cake, with a little thingie inside. Whoever gets the thingie in their slice is the king or queen, and they get to wear a paper crown. The little boy in the family, Jean-Edouard, was so excited about it, he kept asking everyone if they'd finished their dinner yet, so we could start the cake.

Apart from trips to various places around Versailles and Paris, most of my holidays were spent reading and playing Wii. I've now read the first three Harry Potters in french. I can't get over the fact that Fawkes the Phoenix (that's his name, right?) is called Fumseck. It cracks me up as much as that Super Mario Galaxy thing. Yes, Emma, I know it's dumb. I spent yesterday playing like ten rounds of Wii bowling with Jean-Edouard, because he was trying to get up enough points to be at the Pro level. As it turns out, I seem to have a knack for the hula hoop game on Wii Fit. Which is probably for the best, I need to work off all the french chocolates I've been eating. Their grandparents gave me a box of them for christmas, they're so good. I've also been trying to help them play Wii boxing, but I'm not sure how to properly explain how to dodge. It's hard to talk with Jean-Edouard, because if I'm saying something that's only vaguely correct, it's harder for him to guess what I'm trying to say.

Well, there's only three days left, and then we're heading home. I know, just as you were enjoying being well shot of us, too. But if we stay here much longer, I actually think we'll see another ice age.
--Caitlin