The Good Way To Celebrate Christmas

If there is one thing the French truly know how to do, it is eating.  Christmas Eve dinner consisted of:
Appetizers: Shrimp, oysters, pringles, SNAILS!!!!
2nd Appetizer: Shrimp soup- Yumm!!
Dinner: Quail, carrot, and something else
Dessert: Beignets, fruit salad, nougat ice cream
All over the course of about 3 hours.


After dinner, we played a dance game on the PS3. Valerie's family was there; her parents, and her sister with her sister's family.





Dinner was so much fun and it finally finished around 1 AM Christmas morning. We all went to bed and Gabriel woke us all up for presents at 9 AM. Valerie gave me a scarf and a matching hat and mittens. It was a lovely Christmas morning which I celebrated further by going back to sleep. I woke up around 11 and got ready to go to lunch. We went to a family friends house and thus began the longest lunch I have ever had, it was a lunch to envy those of the Shire.

Appetizers: Crab cakes, mini sandwiches, other assorted appetizers
2nd Appetizer: Foie gras (duck patée) sort of cat foodish, served with bread
3rd Appetizer: A fish thingamabob with gravy
In between courses: Strawberry sorbet with some kind of alcohol
Entree: Quail, beans, the equivalent of funeral potatoes
Cheese!
Fruit and beignets
Dessert: option of strawberry ice cream, chocolate, or chocolate nougat.
 Finished off with more fruit!

The meal lasted a total of 5 hours, yes, I said 5 HOURS, and afterwards I felt as though I wouldn't need to eat for the next century! The feeling only lasted until lunch the next day.

Jump forward to today, the 27th of December, one month before my departure.  I went and visited my friend Fathima for her sister's 10th birthday party. It was very fun! We ate lunch with our hands, played cards, had cake and opened presents. It was an overall perfect day!