Carey'd Away

Olympic Museum 2010

Last month we went to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.  After we were well on our way, I realized I’d left the house with NO CAMERA, and was pretty annoyed about it.  All we had were the junk cameras in our blackberry phones.  Sigh.  But on arrival we were told that photography is absolutely not allowed inside the museum, so I guess it was good I had no camera.

We had a nice time learning about Olympic history and seeing a lot of very cool artifacts.  And lunch upstairs in the restaurant was lovely (Well my local perch filets were.  Mike’s salmon soufflé was not so great.  If you go, don’t order that.)

It was a cold and blustery day, so it was great to have an out of the house, but inside from the cold activity.  Bummer that the photos are Blackberry photos, but I guess it’s better than nothing!

Here are the boys in front of the entrance – sometimes you just have to take the silly photos.

And here they are with Lac Leman behind them in Lausanne.

12th Anniversary!

Yesterday was our 12th Anniversary.  We celebrated with champagne and thai food – Yay!

Les Gets to Morzine

We went up to the French Alps this past weekend with some friends.  All the guys skied from Les Gets over to Morzine and met Lesley and I (who drove over) for lunch.  Then they skied back.  The weather was ok – alternating between grey with heavy snow and sunny and gorgeous.  It was a nice day.

Here’s the ski group after lunch, about to ski back to Les Gets.

And a couple of snaps out the car window during the drive home.

Still Life Challenge – Glass Bottles

Reflective surfaces can be quite a challenge, but much easier to manage with my new lights.

Recycled Glass (seriously)

Purple Perfume Bottle

Bottles and Beads

Crystal Perfume Bottle

Empty Bottles

World Book Day 2010

Matthew and Nathan’s school is celebrating World Book Day by allowing the children to dress up as their favorite book character.
Of course that means I have two Harry Potters today.  Aren’t they adorable?

Battling your evil twin is hard work, isn’t it Harry?

Take Me There

Tanah Lot, Bali Indonesia

Old Friends in New Places

One of the great things about traveling a lot and living all over the world is that you get to meet many interesting and wonderful people.  One of the first families we met when we moved to Malaysia in 2001 was the Yigiter Family – Nuray, Burol, Dennis and Ege.  Matthew and Ege are the same age, and they made friends quickly.  When we moved back to Malaysia from Thailand in 2008, Ege and Matthew were in the same class at Mont Kiara International  School.  Last weekend we met up with the Yigiters in Geneva city center as they were here for the day on their way home from a mid-term break ski holiday.  It was fabulous to see them and hear how life is back in England (they left Malaysia last year too).

New Hobby

Matthew has decided to learn the guitar.  His school offers lunchtime classes for beginners on Mondays, but he’s starting late in the school year and is going to have to do a LOT of practicing to catch up.  He’s cool with that though, so we took him yesterday to Nyon to buy a beginner’s guitar.  We’re all really excited about his new hobby.

Hats for Haiti

The kids’ school had a couple of fund raisers for Haiti today.  They were allowed to wear a hat to school in exchange for a chf 5 contribution to the fund.  And then at 12:20 (the close of school on Wednesdays) the year 6 class ran a bake sale.  I am interested to hear how much money they raised.

Matthew and Nacho ..um… “working” at the bakesale.
Matthew’s is wearing the Mad Hatter’s hat.

Nathan and Chris sporting their hats.
Nathan’s hat is a 2010 World Cup hat that his Daddy bought for him in Joburg.

French Fry Day

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L’Imparfait

The imperfect tense in French is used to express the distant past, past habits and conditions that no longer exist.
To form the imperfect, conjugate the verb for “vous”, drop the “ez” ending and replace with the following:

For example:

Exceptions:
Verbs ending in ger retain the “e” in all forms except nous and vous.

Verbs ending in “cer” the “c” changes to “ç”.