After we returned from the Christmas market, we had a cross-cultural, multi-lingual holiday bash in the common kitchen at the Foyer where I live with Stephanie and Maisie. Everyone brought something to eat or drink, and we partied like we were about to start our last week of teaching before Christmas vacation...mostly because we were :)
Maxine and Jess went up and down the hallway we live in, knocking on all the doors and inviting all our "neighbors" to come party with us....and two new friends showed up! Erwan and Étienne, both Frenchies, joined us in our little Christmas soirée...
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| They even helped us open.... |
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| ...and consume Stephanie's Disney Princess apple cider (though they admonished us that, were we to ever buy it again, they'd no longer be our friends.) |
We even got the chance to consume our first
galette des rois (King cake) of the season! The tradition is that the youngest person in the room has to get under the table and dictate which person gets which slice of cake; the person who gets the little
fêve (a ceramic or plastic figurine) is supposed to have good luck for the rest of the year. Traditionally the figurine was a baby Jesus, but increasingly it's become some pop-culture figure. This particular
galette des rois had figurines from The Chronicles of Narnia, but I've also seen Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Hello Kitty
fêves. Welcome to the 21st century...?
For once we actually ran out of alcohol, too, which Étienne remedied with 4 bottles of hard cider and Erwan fixed with a bottle of some illegal apple moonshine.
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| We can see how that worked out :P |
It was one of the best Christmas parties I've ever been to :) Enjoy the photos!
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