Christmas has arrived!

Hello everyone! I'm sorry I haven't gotten a blog to you in along time but time flies and all of a sudden it's three weeks after your last blog and you need to do another!

We went to Carpentras the other day to look at the decorations and attractions of the village. There was a big Christmas Tree with decoration and lights in it. A Christmas tree in French is called a Sapin. There were three men in boxes with heads on top and mesh as the mouth so that they could see. On the mouths uneven teeth were painted and when they popped out of their boxes they actually had the uneven teeth. It was funny because they kept picking on people. Once they got a lady and trapped her between the three boxes and made faces and sounds at her. It was funny because it didn't sway her, she just looked at them and smiled and eventually gave up because she wasn't being affected.

We also went ice-skating at the outdoor ice-skating rink. It was fantastic. We skated around and at the end we were going quite fast! The only disadvantage was that the boots were really uncomfortable!

That night I went to Raphael's house and stayed the night. We played on Grand Turismo 5 on his PS3. It's brand new and it's fantastic! We used his virtual racing wheel to tear around the corners. But if you were to buy the games, buy a wheel. It's useless with the controller. We played that for the afternoon and then some of his sister's friends came over and we watched Public Enemies with Jonny Depp in it. It's about the gangsters in America and the most wanted Jonny Nillinger. The next morning we played Call of Duty: Black Ops, zombies mode. It's so funny!

The next day we drove to Richerenches to do truffe (truffle) hunting! We drove to the guide's farm where she searches for truffes daily. It was in the middle of nowhere! It was freezing cold as we headed out but the sun came out at the end. The four of us were joined by our friend, Serge. Together we got to keep some truffles. We've put ours into a Camembert cheese, for the flavour of the truffle to infuse into the cheese. I'll let you know how it tastes!

Au Revoir!

Sean