Barbeque

Bidding Tommi "Bon Voyage" before he heads back to Finland.

As you can tell, it has been a little bit of slow news week here in Paris as the hockey season has come to an end and Mindy and I have found ourselves to be surprisingly busy with teaching the past couple of weeks. Don't worry folks, we are just catching our breath and plan on recomencing our adventurous ways in the next couple of days.

This past weekend however, we did participate in the first barbeque of 2009 as Romain hosted some of us at his house in the hills just north of Paris. So on a balmy Saturday afternoon, we convened to play a little ping-pong, eat a little food, and relax in the sun. With the temperature around 15 degrees, it was quite pleasent and we enjoyed hanging out in the backyard with Romain working the jukebox (his computer) and playing some excellent tunes. One of my teammates, Guiz Pfeiffer introduced us to some spicy sausages which just so happened to work nicely with fresh baguette while Mindy and I prepared a little apple crumble for dessert (which proved to be quite the hit). Can't wait for the next one!

JC demonstrates to Andronik and Tommi how to properly smash the ball without spilling one's beer.

As the ping pong table was located in the sun, we decided to use it as our dinner table as well.