Sleepover and American Breakfast

This past weekend a handful of my friends and I got together chez moi to have a sleepover and make a proper breakfast. We decided that my place would be the best because it is the largest of all of our places and has enough places for people to sleep.

Jenny, Miriam, Jenna, Ryan, and I spent Saturday night until Sunday early afternoon together at 280 Rue Victor Hugo. Everyone came over after dinnertime on Saturday night for a night filled of games and fun. We played a couple of games of monopoly. The best one was the second one when people started to get married…thus combining their property and money. It was Miriam and I who started the trend…we were immediately followed by Ryan and Jenny…and then Jenna and Adeline (Jenna’s teacher friend). Miriam and I hoped that we would be able to survive by combining our stuff because we had the least amount of money and were losing…unfortunately, our marriage did not change things and we remained the poorest and weakest. However, at the end we found out that one of the reasons we were doing so poorly was because three of the other four players decided to steal 1,000 Monopoly dollars each! But, it is JUST A GAME! We also played some Banana Grams….which everyone loves and is hooked on, as well as charades and catch phrase. We all fell asleep after an episode of Glee. So exciting…huh!?

The following morning, we were all up around 10AM. We made three courses for our “American Breakfast”…though the first two were not quite “American”. We started off with some cream cheese, capers, and smoked salmon on flax seed covered crackers. Then we had a quiche Lorraine…onions, ham, and cheese…as usual, it was delicious. We took a food break for a bit and played some Banana Grams and then we moved onto the main event! Jenna and I made pancakes, sausage (chicken…yuck!), and bacon. We had bananas and syrup to put on the pancakes…SO GOOD! All in all it was a HUGE hit…we are definitely planning on doing it again.

Other news, I am starting a “Photo Challenge” with my friend Jenny. For those of you that do not know or do not have access to my Facebook, I have been taking a picture a day to document my experience as an assistant in France. My album is titled “287 Days in France”…yes, I will have been here for 287 days when July 5, 2011 arrives. Anyways, Jenny and I are both doing this picture a day thing so we decided to spice it up a little bit and make it more interesting. Over the course of February we have a list of 15 things that we need to take pictures of. At the end of the month, we are going to compare our pictures…picture to picture based on the thing photographed. The person who has the “better” photo will get a point; we are going to see who will “win” this challenge at the end of the month. We purposely left 13 days without a thing to photography….we want to still be able to capture photos of our choosing. So, here are the 15 things that we must attempt to capture in our photos of the day:

(1) Bicycle

(2) Umbrella

(3) Iconic French

(4) Faux Pas

(5) The Letter Q

(6) Reflection

(7) Monochrome

(8) Music

(9) Self-Portrait

(10) Damaged/Broken

(11) Coffee

(12) Diamond

(13) Architecture

(14) I am here

(15) Trust

As you can see, they are not all physical objects and there is some imagination and thinking that will be needed/used to get good photos. Nevertheless, we are both so excited to get started! I am sure that I will post an entry at some point with all 15 photos.

Well, that is all for now. It is time for bed.

-Alex