A party!

After our move, I was eager to get things out of boxes as soon as possible, but it was a very busy week at work, so we didn't get much done. It would have been nice to delay Zoe's party until next week, but it turns out that next week is the start of a two week school holiday, so we figured that not many of her friends would be able to make it. So we bit the bullet, scheduled it for this weekend and unpacked like crazy into friday night and saturday morning. Chloe cooked her second set of cakes (the first set was delivered to school earlier this week). Invitations were sent out earlier in the week, and finally the big day was here. Earlier in the day I made pain perdu (French toast) and we decided to put a candle in it.

Neither Chloe nor I had ever done a party like this, as it was the first year Zoe expected it, and we were pretty stressed out. Of course, the weather turned out to be pretty uncooperative: the forecast went from sunny to rain, and then freezing rain. As a result we were left to scramble for indoor games and came up with pin the tail on the donkey (which I guess is not very common in France, but the kids seemed to really like it)

and a treasure hunt. Vanessa very kindly stayed the whole time to help -- thank you Vanessa!!!