Saturday 2/4: Lots of Crêpes and Dancing!

Whew! I slept in until 11:30am today! I was so awake last night that I didn’t end up going to sleep until 2am, so I was very glad that I didn’t have any plans for today.

After breakfast, I took Dunja for a walk in the woods. I was hoping that we’d have snow (they had predicted it for this weekend), but we didn’t get any today. Tomorrow we’re supposed to get some, though….so I’ll keep hoping for that!

This afternoon, Ralf received a huge load of firewood that he had purchased, so I went out and stacked it while he brought it over in wheelbarrows from the truck. It was really nice to be outside working in the cold, fresh air!

Thursday (February 2^nd) was “Chandeleur”—crêpe day! In France everyone makes crêpes that day, but Catherine was working late and she decided we would postpone it until today.

So, around 5pm Catherine, Margot, LouAnn (Margot’s friend), and I headed into the kitchen to start cooking the crêpes. Catherine had already made the batter, so we just had to cook them. But, that takes a while to make dozens of them!

Photo: Margot and LouAnn making crêpes

The girls made about 30 crêpes (some of which they tossed...most of which landed back in the pan and not on the floor...) and then Catherine and I made about 20 galettes, which are crêpes made with buckwheat. Normally you use crêpes for dessert and galettes for dinner.

Dinner was delicious! We finished making the crêpes/galettes around 8:30pm (so, yes, they’re labor-intensive) and then sat down to enjoy them! Isabelle and her son Alexandre came for dinner as well, so it was pretty lively!

Photo: My galette...notice it's darker because it's made with buckwheat flour

We filled the galettes with a tomato/onion spread, cheese/herb spread, ham (for the meat eaters) and mixed veggies (for me). Mmmm! And for the dessert crêpes we had nutella (of course), jams, and sugar. Quite a feast!

Photo: Dessert time! (Notice the huge stack of crêpes)

To work off all we’d eaten, Margot and LouAnn convinced me to play Just Dance with them. It was actually really fun—we danced for hours and took turns taking care of Alexandre because Catherine and Isabelle were hanging out in the other room.

Photo: The Dancers!!

Photo: Those white thingies we are holding track your movements and you get points for how well you follow the little dancer on the screen. Yes, it's bizarre.

Eventually we got so hot we had to go change into t-shirts and the fire no longer felt cozy, but rather sweltering!

Towards the end we started karaoke-ing, too, which was hilarious when the songs were in English and the girls were trying to sing them!

Photo: Margot karaoke-ing while LouAnn dances!

I had a really fun time tonight—completely different from last night’s outing, but just as fun!

Check out a video from tonight: