Monday, February 17, 2014

The Vercors



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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Climbing!


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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Vercors


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Monday, February 10, 2014

Hamburgers!


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Sunday, February 09, 2014

Hanging out with Zoe


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Saturday, February 08, 2014

Zoe finds an egg!


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Thursday, February 06, 2014

Grenoble



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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

My new go-to recipe:  Broccoli soup!


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Monday, February 03, 2014



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Friday, January 31, 2014

Chinese new year.. in Grenoble



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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Dinner+party



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Bento, the mountaineer


The kids raced around the track, too



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Frosty Neron



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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

More nice commute imagery



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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Squid ink!

Squid ink sauce with shrimp pasta!


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An easy bike ride along the path along the Isere river:


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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Science

The kids and I have been doing science experiments at home:  baking soda, vinegar, pH indicators.  It's all very fun


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How's this for a morning commute



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Zoe wins a prize!

Every new years (Epiphany, to be exact) in France, the "Galettes des rois" appear:  delicious marzipan (and other types) of cakes in a flakey, buttery crust.  Inside, there are little prizes which you can find, which are called feves.  I'm always impressed by the quality of the feves, which can be well glazed ceramic figurine which will probably last a lifetime.  I guess the custom is pretty ubiquitous in Europe, and even in Louisiana, where it goes by the slightly less mellifluous name of king cake.  So we as a family have eaten a ridiculous amount of these things this year because they are soooo delicious.  Despite their deliciousness, I really hate seeing what it brings out in the kids.  They immediately surround the galette to try to determine where the feve resides, which they infer by subtle ripples in the surface of the cake.  Fights then erupt regarding where the cake should be cut, and who gets the slice:  it's madness.  Anyway, we recently had some friends over, and the parents decided to pre-load the galette with some extra feves to make sure all the kids got them, and handed them out.  Zoe's feve was a red ceramic disc which instructed us to go to the boulangerie to pick up a special prize.  The next day, Chloe brought the feve to the boulangerie to redeem the prize (and buy more galettes of course), and were surprised to find that the prize was a diamond pendant!  There was an immense spectacle as the boulangers checked the serial number on the feve against their records.  

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Ski classes!

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