It was a bright and early morning today. We had to leave the house at 9:15am, and for those of you who don't think that is too early, we just moved our clocks ahead one hour last night so Kezia and I have had two spring aheads this month.Church was nice, quite the drive, but still really nice. The sermon was in French, although the Pastor was kind enough to read some things in English although the accent was slightly hard to understand. We also sang hymms in French and I had to try really hard not to laugh. Kez and I have agreed that William (my uncle) speaks French but with a very English accent; he just says the French words without the pronounciation - it's quite cool. Anyways, I had him singing with an English accent beside me, a man behind me singing extremely low, then the lady beside him was singing high-pitch opera all the while Kezia and I were trying to keep in tune with the organ. Quite the sight to see. A lot of singing, then a lot of talking and they would start praying and you of course wouldn't know until half way through. It was over soon enough where we all packed back into the car to head home.
Oh, I forgot to mention that on the way we toured past those "Bûcher"s which are still in the process of being built. You can see it here on the right: the little base of it is that log thing on the left, and the little house is a watch house because a few years ago, people would burn them early to ruin the hard work and celebration. So now they are guarded so as to not be detroyed before the official night of burning or what not. They basically are just criss-crossed log towers filled with tree branches that will be lit on fire the first Saturday before St. John's day or something like that. Then on the 30th of June it's the town's birthday party and there is more excitement and the like. We also passed some firefighters practicing down by the river which was cool to see, and then we headed home. Since today is a Sunday everything is closed and all there is to do is lounge around. I have been thinking about taking a mid-day shower, but Marilyn ALWAYS finds something to do or somewhere to take us, and I know that if I take one, I won't have enough time to get ready.Another good thing though about Sunday (if I have listed a good thing already) is that for lunch we get a huge feast! I am very excited, but I have also mentioned to William that tomorrow, if possible, Kez and I would love to have soup since it's been quite some time since I have had any.
That's all for now, hope to talk to some of you later but it seems that this even greater time change is making it impossible to phone you guys. I guess you'll just have to enjoy the silence. =b
Gros Bisous
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Hey chickadee!
Glad to hear your lounging and relaxing. That's what vacations are supposed to be... I hear they're more work then relaxation though. Whatever. I must say, the idea of burning a cabin as a symbol of end of school sounds incrediably inviting. I think all us seniors should do something like that. Sounds too amazing to pass up.
I heard that Kez phoned yesterday. Tell her I am sorry! We got back late from our conference. We would have been on time... However, we forgot some girls at the mall where we had our lunchtime pit-stop. The irony was we didn't notice they were gone for a whole HOUR! We were halfway to the border when we realized that nope, they weren't on the bus. So, we had to drive ALL THE WAY BACK to the mall... Then home. Needless to say, it kinda sucked. Kyle was annoyed 'cause he was supposed to be at his first ball hockey game that night. I don't know if he went. I don't think we were back in time. Oh well. It was an amazing conference nonetheless.
Going to Church in France. Way too cool. Man, I am so psyched for you guys! Can't wait to see all the pictures and hear all the stories!!
Love you both!
XOXO!
-Bekah
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