Actually we'll start with Christmas Eve...
It was distinctly unfestive! After coming back from church, we ate dinner and put the TV on at the Badé house. The only thing we could find worth watching was a French magic show from 2011 - there was one magician who was actually very good and very funny :-)
But there was no Christmas tree... And no pretty lights...
So to get in the mood, Etienne tried on his Santa outfit when we got home:
That's my husband!! Lol...
After a nice lie-in on Christmas morning, we headed next door for breakfast: Etienne decided to fry some 'bodo bodo' (deep fried balls of slightly sweet dough) in sugar, and we had that with bread...
Not quite MasterChef standard but it filled a hole!
Then onto church for a kids Christmas party, where we waited a frustratingly long time for people to turn up! You'd think everyone would be keen to see Santa, but as usual, no one was in any hurry! In fact, the last guests turned up at noon - which was the finishing time!! Doh!
The party itself was good fun though: there was a bit of singing, musical statues, 'cut the string', pass the parcel, and of course a visit from the North Pole (Santa may have been slightly in fancy dress - one has to get creative when resources are limited!)...
We finished off with some refreshments in the form of 'bissape'. It's a juice made from berries and sugar - a bit like Ribena - except here you suck it out of a plastic bag!
After that, we went to the PO Box, realised we'd left our keys with Charles, so phoned him, and then he ran from home to bring them to us...
We took him home and spent the afternoon with his lovely family (the Accalogouns)...
Eating here tends to be quite communal - the kids all sit around a big plate and dig in with their hands...
More pics from the afternoon, including the outdoor kitchen...
At one point some clowns came to visit, banging on drums, and the sugar that Etienne had eaten suddenly took over, lol...
He soon calmed down though :-)
After we'd exhausted our social energy, we headed home, opened our one Christmas present (merci M&M !)...
...then received another from from our neighbour, which meant we didn't need to bother cooking dinner (yippee!)...
(The chicken on that plate - it spent a few days enjoying life in our courtyard... Poor thing...
It was tasty though!)
...then put on a film (in French so I was reasonably lost for most of it!) and fell asleep!! :-D
I am quite sure we will never have a Christmas like that again!
It was distinctly unfestive! After coming back from church, we ate dinner and put the TV on at the Badé house. The only thing we could find worth watching was a French magic show from 2011 - there was one magician who was actually very good and very funny :-)
But there was no Christmas tree... And no pretty lights...
So to get in the mood, Etienne tried on his Santa outfit when we got home:
That's my husband!! Lol...
After a nice lie-in on Christmas morning, we headed next door for breakfast: Etienne decided to fry some 'bodo bodo' (deep fried balls of slightly sweet dough) in sugar, and we had that with bread...
Not quite MasterChef standard but it filled a hole!
Then onto church for a kids Christmas party, where we waited a frustratingly long time for people to turn up! You'd think everyone would be keen to see Santa, but as usual, no one was in any hurry! In fact, the last guests turned up at noon - which was the finishing time!! Doh!
The party itself was good fun though: there was a bit of singing, musical statues, 'cut the string', pass the parcel, and of course a visit from the North Pole (Santa may have been slightly in fancy dress - one has to get creative when resources are limited!)...
We finished off with some refreshments in the form of 'bissape'. It's a juice made from berries and sugar - a bit like Ribena - except here you suck it out of a plastic bag!
After that, we went to the PO Box, realised we'd left our keys with Charles, so phoned him, and then he ran from home to bring them to us...
We took him home and spent the afternoon with his lovely family (the Accalogouns)...
Eating here tends to be quite communal - the kids all sit around a big plate and dig in with their hands...
More pics from the afternoon, including the outdoor kitchen...
At one point some clowns came to visit, banging on drums, and the sugar that Etienne had eaten suddenly took over, lol...
He soon calmed down though :-)
After we'd exhausted our social energy, we headed home, opened our one Christmas present (merci M&M !)...
...then received another from from our neighbour, which meant we didn't need to bother cooking dinner (yippee!)...
(The chicken on that plate - it spent a few days enjoying life in our courtyard... Poor thing...
It was tasty though!)
...then put on a film (in French so I was reasonably lost for most of it!) and fell asleep!! :-D
I am quite sure we will never have a Christmas like that again!
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