Thanksgiving/Christmas market

Thanksgiving dinner...

Stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy...we had it all.

We even had turkey! There was a Thanksgiving meal at the English speaking church and there was leftover turkey, so they let us have some.

We made Vin Chaud, it was scrumptious.

We miss snow! So we made our own.

We have Advent candles! They are not all the right colors, but we made it work.

They really go all out with Christmas decorations here. The lights are absolutely amazing.

This is the main street, Cours Mirabeau.

Hotel de Ville. This is a square right by our apartment.

Cours Mirabeau.

The Christmas market on Cours Mirabeau that is open every single day.

We tried Macarons for the first time! They were interesing...

You all should come and visit us, if not to see us then for the lights, they really are breathtaking, and they are everywhere! The church that we go to is having a Christmas carol concert on Sunday. We are both in the choir for it. The service is in the main cathedral in town, and it is a candle lit service. From what we are told, there are usually about a thousand people there. We cannot wait, it sounds glorious. And we get to sing in a huge cathedral!

We rebel against clever titles!

It was an absolutely beautiful evening, so we decided to go out for some nice hot mulled wine. It was scrumptious. There is nothing better than hot wine on a chilly night.

It was gone all too soon.

One of our new favorite things is Nutella hot chocolate. It is so good! I don't know why we didn't think of it sooner.

We are very proud of our wine bottle collection. Five bottles in a month and a half is not too shabby

It rained nonstop all last week, which was also the week of our break. I woke up one night to the sound of dripping, I ignored it for a while, but then finally decided I should find out where it was coming from, and it's a good thing I did! When I finally found where the leak was I discovered a big pool of water just inches away from all of my books. I almost had a heart attack. Over the course of the next week we found several more leaks, the grand total now is nine I believe.