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.

Day 1 in Poitiers, France

We arrived in France yesterday at the Charles de Gaulle Airport then took an almost 2-2.5 hour train to Poitiers completing more than 24 hours of travel starting in Makkah. Our uncle lives here, and has lived here for I think around 30 years. Me and my two sisters stayed at our cousin's place while my mom, dad and brother stayed at the uncle's. After arriving at around 9:30 pm, I went to sleep around 10:30 but finally slept at around 12 midnight (couldnt fall asleep, donno why, even though i was damn tired). Then I think I woke up around 8 am, got up from the bed at around 8:30. Then had a break of freshly baked and delicious chocolate filled croissant, some orange juice, raspberries and apricots. Then we (me, my sis' and cousin's daughter) went for a long walk through a park, fed ducks and took some  awesome pics. Played a game called Mölkky along with our brother-in-law who taught us how to play it. It was fun. Then we had lunch consisting of home baked awesome Pizza, boiled potatoes, homemade mayonnaise, cherry tomatoes, olives, some type of lettuce salad. Later on we made a dessert of strawberry cake (it ultimately had all the characteristics of a cake although it was made in a really different way), I helped too :D. Played a card game called Jungle Speed. Then my parents and little brother arrived and we went for a tour of the area nearby. We went to a couple of old churches, a marketplace, a small mall, had some awesome chocolate ice-cream and then came back home. Played a game of Quarto, later on another silly but fun game called Coyote. And then we had dinner on the lawn outside. Sausages were barbecued, Ratatouille was prepared and the dessert was taken out (which by the way, was really really AWESOME).

Ducks coming towards us as we starting throwing in breadcrumbs

Path thru the garden

A view of the river

An alley

St Radegonde's Church

Barbecuing the sausages

The Dinner Table

Summer is going on here but its cooler than even the winter back home in Makkah. The day is really long, starting with dawn at around 6 and ends with the dusk at around 11. But its cool, winds going on the whole time. Apparently the temperature drops down to 10° C at night and was around 25° during the day. There was a light drizzle for a few seconds too.

Overall had a really good and fun day! (:

Will be visiting some château tomorrow.

The Transformers ARE among us

Proof that the Transformers do exist and they're among us, a Decepticon chappal:

DECEPTICON

[Photo taken at Hollywood Shoes/Sandals/Chappal ki dukan]

A single Harry Potter bearing the weight of the whole Twilight saga

Studying Math......................

studying math...........................I-)

"Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way."  — George Polya

Sumaiya (my sis): Do you know anyone who is almost/totally perfect?
Me: Yeah, I think I know a guy or two
Sumaiya: Dont you JUST HATE THAT KINDA PEOPLE?????
Me: :))