Geneve

Hey guys! Sorry for slacking on the blog writing, life has actually been a bit hectic the past week! So un-french! :-)

This past weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit my dear cousin Catherine in Geneva! There's nothing like quality cousin time.

Here we are looking goofy in front of the fountain of Lake Geneva

Geneva is a beautiful little city, we could look across the lake and see the skyline of the city with snowy mountains in the background.

Friday afternoon we toured around the city. We went window shopping in the old town, stopped by the Alabama Room (where one of the first genevan peace-making events was held - something to do with Britain helping the Confederacy during the Civil war...), and then had tea at this really cute little tea parlor!

Catherine lovin on the world!

Ironic because last time I visited Catherine (in NYC!) we took this nice picture of her with her head in the world.

Then we drove out to Nancy & Jack's house about 15 min outside of the city for the weekend's feature event...the Couscous Cookoff between Jack and Catherine's friend Sondes who grew up in Tunisia.  I believe there were about 20 of us around a couple tables in Nancy & Jack's dining room! Since Catherine's university is bilingual, almost everyone spoke both french and english, which meant the whole evening i was switching between depending on who i was talking to and which language they were more comfortable with - franglish fest! :)

After the votes came in, Sondes was the champion! We made her a cute little medal. We took tons of great pictures....but they're all on catherine's camera, haha so after i steal them from her i'll make sure to post them! 

Then the next day, we went skiing in the Alps!

We actually ended up going to the same resort that I visited in January, La Clusaz. We accidently got on the wrong lift and ended up on the same Red slope that I kinda freaked out on last time, and tried to ride the lift back down, haha, but they wouldn't let us, so we just had to go on down, and we ROCKED IT. :-) yay.

Catherine on the slopes

Then we went back to Geneva and feasted on some raclatte with Tom, Gina, and Beth. Raclette is kindof like THE french party dish. You melt this type of cheese called raclatte in this special little skillet/fondue type thing, and then put the melted cheese over ham, corn, and these cute little potatos.  Mmmmm so good. : -)

the cool elevator in Tom/Gina/Beth's building

This coming week is our winter break, so I will be heading off early tomorrow morning to Morocco!