Day 2 in Poitiers, France

After sleeping at around 2 am yesterday (was online updating blog and uploading pics, the uploading took really long as i kept on losing my selection of pics to upload even after reseleccting many times, and the Picasa plugin wasnt working) I woke up around 9 am today, had a bath, got dressed by 9:30 then went to great some confectionary for the morning breakfast along with my brother-in-law. After that we had to wait around an hour till both my sisters woke up, got ready and had some breakfast, and then we left for the market with our cousin sister, where we were supposed to meet-up with my parents too. After a long walk (long at least for a lazy slob who barely walks) we got there. Apparently a bazaar is held near one of the churches every Saturday and there's where we went to.

The Saturday Market near a Church

Some plant, looked good, no idea what its called

Snails

Snail stuff: Snail paste in the small jars, snail paste with bread, and other snail stuff in the refrigerator

The Flea Market part

Shrimps

Some of the activities in the park on Saturday

Little brother putting the skittles up again during a game of Molkky

Dinner

My mom was gonna show and cook Indian-ish lunch and dinner. So, at the bazaar we bought a lot of different vegetables, some spices, fresh shrimps and fish etc etc. After getting back home both of them started in the kitchen. I think dad cleaned the shrimps out though. Lunch was then served, which included those shrimps, of course, along with some of yesterday's leftover ratatouille, and some other regular stuff. I had shrimps after a long time, we dont have them too regularly coz they arent good for my dad's health. These shrimps were really good! Better than i've had before. The Shrimps we had in Saudi Arabia used to shrink and curl up while cooking but these stayed pretty much the same size. After a great lunch we played Molkky for some time, then I lied around for a longer time, sometime then, donno exactly when, the preparations for dinner had begun. We were gonna have fish, the kind we have at home. Apparently the marination and all went well, but after placing the fish pieces in the frying pan, the masala (spices) began falling off the piece and the fish started breaking up too. The end product was pretty relishing though.

We decided to cancel the plan for visitng the chateau since we'd probably be visiting one when we go to Paris and take up some tour. And yeah, we'll going to Paris tomorrow afternoon, by train. Not sure if I'll be update the blog or even upload the pics on facebook then, the wifi in the hotel will be paid and might be slow whereas we had awesome wifi here with a speed of around 7 mbps.