The night before, one of the local people invited us to go and spend Christmas day with her family. We opted for the aperitif instead since we had our own dinner plans. They served us real champagne.
I think I've said it one hundred times if I've said it once: the French eat a lot!! I've not been to a single restaurant where the portions are not fully satisfying. Anyway, this lovely french family served us smoked salmon with a savoury madeleine, duck meat (it looked like a piece of bacon) with beets, comte (a type a cheese), apple and walnuts (my favorite thing of the afternoon) and also more foie gras (this time the way most people eat it. Still not a big fan, but the animal who so kindly donated his foie gras was raised by a relative of the family. They were just bringing out the oysters when we decided to call it quits. They had also been filling and re-filling our glasses the whole time. WOW!
I have to say that the people I've met are extremely hospitable and generous. I have a hard time imagining the average American putting themselves out quite like this.
After we left, we went home and had our own Christmas dinner (after all that! I know, right?) which included a homemade apple, courtesy of one of the seminarians (with a secret ingredient!). We played cards again 'til the wee hours and overall had a very pleasant time.
Picture time!
The creche in the Luxembourg Cathedral. I should have taken pictures of all the creches we came across. that would have been cool. Oh well!
--Mary
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