Day 10

We started this morning by grocery shopping at Hyper Champion for our burritos and cookies that Luke and I are making for dinner. Then Luke and I met Jean Noel at the Peace Museum in Caen. This has a thorough history of WW2. We toured thorough the sometimes cryptic production and the sea of school children. We finished the tour with a quick film showing the Allied side of D-day and the Nazi side on a split screen. It was interesting to see the map of France in the months following D-day and how the allies liberated town by town. Pictures of the towns before and after the war explains quite a bit about the sometimes awkward concrete architecture all over the country. The entire place had to be rebuilt!

Then we headed to pick up the kids from school and took a quick look around. The school looked very similar to schools in the US with a big chalk board up from and students art on all the walls. We then went to play 18 holes of mini golf, which took awhile, but was entirely entertaining. The kids personalities came out. Nicholas is quite an athlete and his hockey player golf stroke won him the game.

Dinner was next and we made burritos with chocolate chip cookies. Luke did an excellent job baking and we used chopped up chocolate bars, as chocolate chips weren't easy to find. France has brought out the baker in Luke, I'm very impressed. Once again the burritos were a hit. The hardest part was wrapping them up. The kids really liked getting choose what went into theirs (less veggies) and they each had 2. I left both recipes in their guest cookbook and then chatted over the Internet with a friend for a bit, technology is so cool. Tomorrow we head back to Paris, so tonight we must pack. I'm ready for the big city and then our journey home.