11/27

Time to buy the turkey! So Charlotte and Liz went with me to pick up the turkey that I ordered earlier this week. I made sure that we got there kinda early, I really had no clue what to expect, and I was preparing for the worst. I wanted to give us enough time, so if for some reason the turkey still had all its feathers on it they could take them off or if they gave us some crazy looking thing I could get something else instead. But fortunately everything was good. They didn’t have a big enough bird so they gave us 2 four kilo turkeys. Unfortunately they still had their heads on them. At this point I would like to thank my dad for preparing me as a child for what I witnessed at the butcher shop. I kindly asked the butcher if he could cut off the heads. At that point he whipped out this HUGE cleaver and then Charlotte and Liz went running out of the butcher shop. Yes Dad, your years of hunting and hanging dead animals around our house have come into handy. I’m not saying I enjoyed the beheading, because I didn’t but the French butcher did make fun of my 2 friends for running out of the shop as fast as they could and not me. So thanks again dad. The birds both weighed a little more than 4 kilos a piece and together they both cost around 80 Euros. So the three of us walked 30 minutes home with 16 pounds of turkey. Once we got home we then ran into the problem of storing the birds. Both Liz and I had to rearrange our little mini fridges and take our shelves out in order to fit them and then we each took a bird.  

Christmas Lights and Fireworks

So for the past month or so the little city of Laval has been hard at work putting up lights all over the city. They have stuff hanging from trees, these crazy looking circles in the river, and they put up a huge frame over the bridge to hang lights. They really went crazy; I mean there isn’t a place in Laval that doesn’t have some type of light hanging from it. So I was getting kinda of excited and on top of that all the Frenchies kept saying how great these lights are.  At 5:30 we all walked down to the little light show.  (oh btw, (dad this means “by the way” I know you’re not all up on this high tech stuff…hahaha) its freezing here in France, so I tend to wear many layers, this night was no exception, tights, leggings, jeans, long sleeve shirts, t-shirts, sweater, fleece, a big jacket, scarf, gloves, and a hat…. I’m definitely not used to this weather and everyone else makes fun of me cause everyone else is from a place in the cold. Canada, England, Scotland, and Milwaukie. ) They started off the lighting ceremony with about 15 minutes of fireworks. They were good, the fireworks didn’t go that high but they were pretty decent. Then came the lights, I think these pictures explain it all. They are super tacky and they look like aliens saucers.