Wow-already April 13th. Mom came in on the 2nd and flew back out on the 10th. During that time we went to Alsace and celebrated Easter with Denis's parents. Xavier made it through 3/4 of the mass at St. Maurice in Guewenheim and Etienne actually stayed with me and my mom for the whole mass. Mom was singing her Baptist hymns under her breath- up from the grave he arose! But we at least found her a church. We also went into Geneva to show mom the city, shopped at Manor the Swiss department store, had lunch there, went to dinner at the Beau Rivage hotel along the lake. She got to see Etienne's school and Xavier's garderie (he goes now about 2 times a week for 1 hr 1/2), CERN, the ATLAS control room, the Alps, the Jura, and she came with me to the CERN toddler group. Speaking of CERN, Denis was psyched about March 30th and the LHC success. It's amazing to me how such a huge, complicated machine (the biggest man-made machine ever) can work so accurately. Amazing.
Mom's visit went by too fast. We ate a lot. I made bouchees a la reine with seafood for Good Friday. Denis's mom served lamb for Easter. Denis made us fleishschnakas (sp?). We had pierrade- (we have a machine now with a granite slab to cook thin slices of meat), lots of good bread, good Thai food, and last but not least good wine.
(trying to get the pictures to post horizontally across instead of vertically, hmmm)
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