Buffy Slays Edward Cullen :(

... but this video is funny! :)

A Week in a Mobile Home

I am now writing this entry inside the mobile home that we rented for a week. 

We came here last saturday. 

The site is located in Ronce-les-bains (Charente Maritime). When we arrived, it was raining very much and we thought that we won't be having a nice time at all during our vacation. But the sun shined the next day, and now, I feel like it's summer already :)

 We did a lot of stuff since we came here. We went to the beach not so far from here. Zachary loves to run on the sand. Raphael is having a good time with his kite. I am so enjoying this time away from home. How I wish we can have vacation more often. 

We went to a zoo last monday then tuesday,to an island, Ile d'Oléron, connected to the mainland by bridge.

 Yesterday, we were with friends: Sebastien and Catherine together with Catherine's parents. They came here all the way from where we live.

 Catherine's parents have a camping car and they arrived here last tuesday. We had barbeque together. Then the next day, which was yesterday, we met in Royan to visit Jardins du Monde (Gardens of the World).

 We ate lunch with them outside their camping car. After the visit, we headed to the beach. Raphael and Sebastien did kite flying. We went back home late and all of us are tired. 

Today, we are just here in the mobile home. Zach is finally having his afternoon nap again. We woke up at 11 am, we were really tired. We'll go back to the beach this afternoon with Chris. Tomorrow, we'll be taking a boat to go to L'ile d'Aix and Fort Boyard and on saturday, we'll be going back home. 

May

It's been quite a while since I last made an entry here. As usual, I am too lazy to blog. There's nothing much going on in our lives these days. I am just reading when I'm free. Right now, I'm reading The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle by L.J. SMith. I still can't get enough of Edward and Bella's love story! I know, I'm desperate lol! But this book is printed in the 90's, long before Twilight... so it's not a Twilight wannabe :) so far, so good... but I still can't help to compare it with Twilight.

Last weekend, we were at my in-laws. It was the birthday of Raph's mom and we celebrated his dad's birthday at the same time (his bday is in 2 weeks!). We ate in a crêperie last saturday and in a brasserie the next day. My diet was suspended for two whole days hehe :) Here's what I ate in the brasserie:

seafood in thai sauce

ile flottante

happy family

Zach after eating his mousse au chocolat :)

Twilight... with cheeseburger

Watch this... it's funny :)

Slide

Happy Easter!

Advance Happy Easter :) I won't have time to greet you tomorrow, that's why I'm doing it now.

Finally, I am now enrolled in a driving school. Hoorah! I signed up for conduite accompagnée. I don't know how to explain it all but with this way, I will have to wait one year to pass a driving test, but I can drive our car already after 20 hrs of lesson, with the presence of Raphaël. I will be learning to drive a manual car, coz it's a bit useless to just drive automatic here in France. Everybody's got manual geared car. Let's say, I have an automatic geared car, and I have the driver's license for automatic car... probably, I won't be driving another car in my life other than my car. So what's the point... Anyway, today, I did a practice test for road codes. I did 6 mistakes out of 40 questions :) It's my best score! But it's still not enough to pass the test... I can only do 5 mistakes I think. But I'm happy, I'm progressing!

When I came back home, I found Zachary like this:

Ain't he cute;)

Reading Mode

These days, I've been in my reading mode. Here are the books that I've read this month:

Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella:

*Confessions of a Shopaholic
*Shopaholic takes Manhattan
*Shopaholic Ties the Knot
*Shopaholic and Sister
*Shopaholic and Baby

I love Becky Bloomwood, the protagonist... I can relate to her though I'm not as shopaholic than she is. I enjoyed Shopaholic and Baby the most... maybe because I'm a yummy mummy like her too! ;)

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

It's funny, I enjoyed reading this. Sophie Kinsella's humor really humors me!!! I remember bursting with laughs as I read the book. Sophie Kinsella is definitely one of my favorite authors now.

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Gosh, It's one of the most interesting books I've ever read. I am recommending this book to all of you... you all must read this! :) You'll miss half of your life if you don't read this!

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Captivating! Story took place in Afghanistan, then and now. Definitely one of my favorite books now. It's sad, but wonderful story. I've read how Afghanistan lost it's glory. This book is very touching. I am reading , as of this moment, A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author, a story of 2 Afghan women.

Before March Ends...

This month, Zachary and I celebrated our birthdays (2nd & 27th). I'm thankful for having this cute and sweet kid, although sometimes "makulit"! Though I think it's really often for a 2 yr. old to be like that (remember, terrible twos!) He talks a lot but we don't undertstand all of what he's saying... He's bilingual, so french and english get mixed up always (thanks to me)... I can't talk tagalog to him, I really tried... but I just can't... It's a shame to admit that I am not used to speak tagalog anymore. I still know tagalog, ofcourse, I won't forget it, it's my tongue that is not responding to it that well. I don't have somebody I can speak tagalog with here in France, and I don't call often to the Philippines... so after 5 1/2 yrs of not practicing it, tagalog doesn't come out naturally as before.

In April, I will finally sign up to a driving school. This has been long overdue! I promise I'll do it this coming month (and go to the dentist too).