France...will never be the same!

OK, well I might have over exaggerated just a little. I doubt that my friend Laura and I are front page news there, or left any large impression on anyone, but we sure had fun! As you may know most european nations have open borders now, so as we are driving to the French border, Laura says "up here you'll see where there use to be border patrol" as I wonder why there are flashing polezi lights? The police were actually there today and asked us where we were going!!! Laura was in shock, she's been here a year and never been stopped like that! Only for me I'm sure, that way I didn't feel bored! I didn't think to take their picture until after we had drove away, bummer.
We left after the kids were in school, and went straight to Cora, which turned out to be the wrong thing to do! It is similar to a WalMart type store, in the sense that they have food, clothes, housewares, tools, books, etc. It is not similar to WalMart in so much as it does not tout that it is a cheap store and undercut their entire economy, but alas I digress! I was completely happy to just go up and down every isle and spend quite a bit of time deciding what to get. Laura thought I would be helpful to have there in France where I could utilize my many years of private school french to her benefit. Well, my language skills are very rusty...it's always been hard to speak and understand it for me, but it is also hard to remember every word I ever learned all those years ago. This led to us picking up a jam jar and wondering if it was banana jam with vanilla or if that word was something else. "What are these cinnamon bun looking things?" she asked, and my honest response was "House Coco?" I swear to you it was Gateau Cocoa! Maybe it was a famous house recipe for coco buns??? WHAT EVER! When I got to the check out stand I said I looked like an alcoholic with a sweet tooth!! (My purchases there are in the picture. I did get 2 birthday presents for my 1 yr. old niece & nephew, but I can't show that now can I?) When I said this was the wrong place to go 1st, it was because the other stores on our list closed for lunch from 12 to 2pm. Darn it, but we found where they were for our next visit. We drove around and ended up at a store called Gemo where I got another present. It was alot of fun to have someone to go adventuring with. Too bad this school doesn't get out at 4pm, I could have seen alot more then! Oh well, there is always next time. Au revoir mes amis!