Yesterday we had a field trip in French class, to le salon du chocolat! Only in Paris would your class take place at a chocolate show! Can you imagine a more wonderful way to spend 3 hours on a wednesday morning?Entering through the doors into the salon, the smell of chocolat was intoxicating! Every major chocolatier & confisserie was there, selling bricks of chocolate, gourmet chocolates, chocolate bread, cakes, fondants, truffles, hot chocolate, macaroons, chocolate covered everythings, need I go on...?
But the selling of the chocolat was not what made it amazing - it was the SAMPLING! Every place has samples! AMAZING samples! Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate with nuts, fruit, marshmallows, coffee, caramel.....mmmmmm
Aside from all the tempting sweets - there were demonstrations from these cute students enrolled in chocolate school, working on making a cake sculpture, as practice for their exam! You could see them crafting the chocolate, like a painter working on is masterpiece!
The chocolate show proved to be a great distraction in the week of doomful studying for my midterms. But - I made it through, and today afterclass I spent time napping to make up for 10 hours of sleep total that I got in the past week. I napped and then watched 3 hours of 90210. I know - it was lame, but I needed some R&R, and a dose of crappy tv drama.
Caroline and I then spent some time laughing at our matching Gap pajamas, blue fleece snowflake print circa 1994! Both of us have hand me downs. Mine from my mom. They have been my favorite jams for years now. It was quite funny when we realized we had the same vintage pajamas.
Tomorrow - I am sleeping in! And then going out to find a winter coat, because it is freezing in PAris!!
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