04.19.07

Birthday in France

Posted in Parties and dinners, Garden, Valbonne at 10:23 am by tesstess

Yesterday was the first time I celebrated my birthday away from home, without swedish birthday song in the morning and without anemones (vitsippor).

In the morning I got these beautiful roses from my love together with a gift card for walking shoes from Alti Coop in Nice.

Karin saved the anemone part for me by making me a beautiful birthday card.

I spent all day cleaning, using my normal strategy: starting on one place where a lot needs to be done, then taking one of the small things and carry it to another place where it should be and put it in place, then I’ll se that in this place a lot needs to be done, so I start there and picks up a new thing that should be in a third place, and then I continue cleaning in this third place. Someone else having the same strategy?

In the evening we had invited some of our friends for a small but tasty BBQ. The first BBQ of the year! But definitely not the last.

Here is Pierre (the cook) and Delphine, and to the right the beautiful bouquet from Sebastien.

Pierre takes care of the meat. The menu this day was porc ribbs in two variations, one chinese marinade and one with chili and honey (and some more things I don’t remember now). To this we ate pastasallad and the dessert was the giant easter rabbit in chocolat that we got in Etzling.

The meat was so good we all sat silient for a long, long time just enjoying it. Alice was running around all evening, so much energy in this small body!

All in all I had a wonderfull birthday and I want to thank everyone that made it so happy! Not least the parents of Anthony who had ordered flowers for me! I was so surprised when the flower shop called me and said they would come and deliver flowers to me, first time in my life I get flowers like this. And the parents had scanned a handwritten greeting for me.

Thank you, thank you, thank you

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