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| Benjamin and me in the church |
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| Benjamin with his great-aunt Tina and great-uncle Joe who came all the way from Reunion Island! He had of course never met them before. I had met Tina once before but never Joe, and Frédéric had not seen his uncle Joe in 20 years! |
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| Frederic and Benjamin on Dumbo the Flying Elephant |
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| Benjamin and Frederic's dad on the Studio Tram Tour |
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| It's a Small World - Paris |
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| Benjamin on It's a Small World |
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| One tired baby |
After having cancelled our guests for Tuesday because we were both ill, our Thursday company called and cancelled as well because they had the same thing! That wasn't such a bad thing, since that gave us more time to recuperate before yesterday. We are both feeling much better now.
Frédéric's coworkers helped us move in to the house last July, but we hadn't yet found a time to have them over to thank them. So yesterday they came over, accompanied by wives and children, and we had a barbecue.
The thing is, when you have French people over for lunch, you should probably be prepared to offer them dinner as well. We didn't actually keep them here for dinner, but everyone had arrived by 12:30 pm and the last ones went home at 8 pm. And then they didn't all go home, some went to the home of some others for dinner. We were invited too, but since Benjamin was already in bed asleep, we had a good excuse to let our day stop there. Not to mention that since it had rained earlier, but cleared up, we ate outside - consequently we had quite a lot of housework to do to get the house looking decent again since the kids tracked all sorts of mud in the house.
We spent almost the entire 7 1/2 hours at the table. Since it was more of an informal meal, we only had these courses:
We skipped "entrée" (appetizer, not the main dish like it means in English) and green salad (would have come before the cheese).
After they left, Frédéric mentioned that one time when we had lunch with some American friends, those friends were having different guests for dinner. He says only Americans can do that, since if we had invited other guests for dinner, they would have arrived around 7 pm and our lunch guests would still be here!
We started our "company marathon" on Saturday. Since Frederic works odd hours/days, we rarely have weekends free for socializing. He is on vacation in May, so we are trying to fit a good bit of socializing in now.
Saturday we went to his coworker's for lunch, and then Sunday had a couple from church over to our house.
We were supposed to have other company today, an Australian friend that I met online and her French husband and their kids, but unfortunately we seem to have caught a stomach bug from our friends' kids on Saturday, so we had to cancel at the last minute.
We're supposed to have other friends over on Thursday, and Frederic's coworkers who helped us move over on Saturday, so we hope the stomach flu goes away quickly!
