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

Luging again

Hello everyone! This week has had a little bit of drama but along the way we have managed to have fun.

We went to Mt Serin where I tobogganed with Raphael and Elisa in February, but this time it was just our family. On the way up to Mt Serin it started to get colder and colder until in dropped in to the minuses and kept descending! When we arrived at the top it was minus eight and a half degrees C! Along the way the road started to get snowy and when we arrived at the top there was a thin layer of snow. Down to the car park Dad lost control of the car. The car slowly started to slide and we slipped and then smashed into another car! Nobody was hurt and luckily the air-bags didn't go off! We got out and looked at the damage but there was hardly any on our very big and strong Opel Astra. The Mercedes Benz however didn't come off so lightly with its door caved in. It in turn slid into the next car and gave it a decent dent, also!! Oh, yes, it was a good job...

Dad and Mum then went to sort things out with the drivers whilste Ivy and I went luging.

It was really fun on the slopes because they had smoothed out all the lumps from last time so you went a lot faster down the slopes this time. We rode down a few times on our own but that got boring so we connected our luges together and went down the hill together. We had a blast! We kept stacking and rolling over each other and throwing snow at each other. It was great fun. We then went back to the cafe and waited for Dad to come back. Wow what a day!

That evening we all were invited for dinner at Ivy's friend's house. While the girls played upstairs, I played a game of Call of Duty: World at War on the wii.

For entrée we ate salmon and herbs with witlof and a sauce on top. For main we had duck with mashed potato, salad and truffles with a vinaigrette. Then for dessert we had Toblerone Mousse. It was so good! After when we got into the car at 1am, it was minus five degrees!

Au Revoir!