Avocats and Avocats

Oops. Sorry, I forgot about this thing. Well no I didn't because I think I have received an email from a mother everyday telling me to post, but hey, give me a break. I'm in Paris! But where to begin...it has been about a month since my last confession. Wait, no blog post, sorry. I have gone to LE CORDON BLEU. Yup, the most famous cooking school in the world! You know the one Julia Child went to, that's the one. I have also had a a fantastic visit from my brother and almost sister-in-law. It was amazing. You can read all about it in his more frequently updated blog http://nothingbutsheep.wordpress.com/

Yes, yes he is the better child it's true. He writes long blogs and puts up pretty pictures. I...well I just ain't got the best of memories. And probably slight ADD. With that said I will try to recount the last month and a bit of my life in grand ole Paris. Oh yeah, Le Cordon bleu. It was so, so amazing. I had this tiny little french chef that looked like he came right out of every French chef stereotype ever made. He lived in Australia for 15 years so the few times he spoke English he had a very strange australian/Parisian accent. We made the most amazing, amazing food that I took lots of pictures of with this families camera with the promise that they would email them to me...still no email :( Never trust those damn Americans. But I do have pictures of the inside of the building, so I'll give you that!

That's it! The fantastic Le Cordon Bleu. Ooooh, ooooh second thing, Loire Valley! I went there! For the whole weekend! All expenses paid! We went to stay in chateau! How amazing is that? We went on tours of amazing Chateaus and it was about 70 degrees and we walked through gardens and eat a picnic on the banks of the Loire river. Well Eli, Bradlea, Hannah, Brittney and I went and had lunch there since everyone went to a restaurant. And Eli and I took our shoes off and ran around in the water and I dug for clams and actually found them! Dinner! No, actually dinner was in a cave. I kid you not. It was delicious food and wine and just beautiful! After dining in the cave we got back on our bus and drove home to see our chateau. We pulled up, the sun was setting, the chateau was glowing, the river ran through the backyard, each student was led with their roommate to their lovely room within the cahteau, and then they called the names of me and my friends and it was like heaven as they led the eight of us to the stables. Wait, what? No chateau for us? Nope, me and the people that live in Cite U with me were to sleep in the stables. I could not make this shit up if I tried. Ahem, pardon my french. But back to the stables. No we did not sleep on piles of hay but in actual beds. But there were tree branches coming through the walls. But it was actually totally fun having all of us together hanging out. The next morning we were given a huge all you can eat breakfast and went off to more chateaus and a wine tasting! It was just so much fun to be out together on the perfect weekend and lay in the grass and eat ice cream and being near water. And I took pictures! But since I have uploaded those last ones the internet has decided to suck as always, which means it takes an hour for each picture to upload. And I just realized it's 2:22 in the morning. So I will post something else before the week is over. I promise. With pictures and sentences that make sense. I'm sorry I'm a sucky blogger moms! But see this just means I'll have more stories for ya'll when I get home! 

OH, wait the title. Fun whyihatefrench fact: Avocat means avocado. No surprise there. However, it also means lawyer. So I could accidently order a roll of lawyer or ask for a nice ripe leathery skinned fruit to represent me when I'm eventually arrested for god knows what. Peace