Family time
So I have had the family over for the weekend :)
They arrived about mid-day on Sat, and after having a quick peek round my room we popped into Monoprix for some bread and spread for lunch which we ate in the little park near the foyer. After lunch we went for a bit of a wander in Caen. Unfortunately dad twisted his ankle so it was was a short wander. But as it was starting to rain this wasn't a bad thing.
After a cup of tea and chat with the couple that own the B&B where they are all staying we headed back into the town for some food, then to bed
Sunday the family came and visited my church.
I was really excited about this weeks choir performance. We had really nailed the two songs and I thought we were going to do really well. We were doing two songs- Before the throne of God above and King of kings (in French). We were however all mortified to find however that the guy leading the service had picked King of kings as one of the songs to sing. It's Ok we thought, ours will still stand out because we are doing it as a canon (round) so it will still be impressive. Then of course he stopped us in singing it as a round. So despite the frantic gesturing of the choir he got half the congregation singing the first part and half singing the second in a fairly successful round! Needless to say we were all a bit shaken up by this so even though we decided to sing both songs anyway I don't think we were quite as good as we could have been as our concentration had been rattled. Even so both songs went without a hitch and sounded very pretty. The girls later told me that they can add my family to the list of 'people who smile while we sing' and they all looked towards mum and dad for the friendly smile.
After the service there was a meal for- well for pretty much the entire church. Everyone kept asking us to stay so we did.
With four long tables layed out in the hall and the pigpong table laddened with food.
Us 'kids' sat with the youth and mum and dad decided to sit elsewhere so that they could socialise and chat with some French people. However somehow they managed to set with all the English people of the church!! But I think they still managed to talk with some French people as well, so they were happy.
After Dinner the family headed off to Bayeux for the afternoon. We went and saw the tapestry- man is that thing long! It was actually really interesting.
Then we headed to Arromanches. This was one of the D day landing beaches. And you can actually still see the remains of the temporary harbour the built during the war.
They took these huge blocks of steel re-inforced concrete and sunk them in a circle round the beach. Several of these are on the beach (presumably part of a jety into the middle of the harbor). They boys of course had fun clambering over them.
Then back into Caen for another yummy dinner. The food this weekend has just been fantastic, though I think I've eaten enough now to keep me going for the rest of the week.
So that was my weekend in a nutshell. The family aren't going back to England until tomorrow afternoon so I'm going to skive of work early and go shopping with mum- dunno what the boys are going to do but hey!
They arrived about mid-day on Sat, and after having a quick peek round my room we popped into Monoprix for some bread and spread for lunch which we ate in the little park near the foyer. After lunch we went for a bit of a wander in Caen. Unfortunately dad twisted his ankle so it was was a short wander. But as it was starting to rain this wasn't a bad thing.
After a cup of tea and chat with the couple that own the B&B where they are all staying we headed back into the town for some food, then to bed
Sunday the family came and visited my church.
I was really excited about this weeks choir performance. We had really nailed the two songs and I thought we were going to do really well. We were doing two songs- Before the throne of God above and King of kings (in French). We were however all mortified to find however that the guy leading the service had picked King of kings as one of the songs to sing. It's Ok we thought, ours will still stand out because we are doing it as a canon (round) so it will still be impressive. Then of course he stopped us in singing it as a round. So despite the frantic gesturing of the choir he got half the congregation singing the first part and half singing the second in a fairly successful round! Needless to say we were all a bit shaken up by this so even though we decided to sing both songs anyway I don't think we were quite as good as we could have been as our concentration had been rattled. Even so both songs went without a hitch and sounded very pretty. The girls later told me that they can add my family to the list of 'people who smile while we sing' and they all looked towards mum and dad for the friendly smile.
After the service there was a meal for- well for pretty much the entire church. Everyone kept asking us to stay so we did.
With four long tables layed out in the hall and the pigpong table laddened with food.
Us 'kids' sat with the youth and mum and dad decided to sit elsewhere so that they could socialise and chat with some French people. However somehow they managed to set with all the English people of the church!! But I think they still managed to talk with some French people as well, so they were happy.
After Dinner the family headed off to Bayeux for the afternoon. We went and saw the tapestry- man is that thing long! It was actually really interesting.
Then we headed to Arromanches. This was one of the D day landing beaches. And you can actually still see the remains of the temporary harbour the built during the war.
They took these huge blocks of steel re-inforced concrete and sunk them in a circle round the beach. Several of these are on the beach (presumably part of a jety into the middle of the harbor). They boys of course had fun clambering over them.
Then back into Caen for another yummy dinner. The food this weekend has just been fantastic, though I think I've eaten enough now to keep me going for the rest of the week.
So that was my weekend in a nutshell. The family aren't going back to England until tomorrow afternoon so I'm going to skive of work early and go shopping with mum- dunno what the boys are going to do but hey!
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