Dinner tonight ^_^

Roasted Eggplants topped with homemade tomato sauce, mozerella, breadcrumbs and shredded cheese. ^_^

Cannes Film Festival Round Two!

And one more time, we were able to get invitations to a showing at the film festival!

This time we went to watch an American film, named Foxcatcher, based on a true story about an olympic wrestling champion.  Although there were parts that were a little long, it was overall a good movie and the actors did very well. So....here we are...walking up the stairs again ^_^

A little rushed this time, didn't have a chance to take a better picture

Smile ^_^

Us inside the theatre

Look at that big screen!

 At the end of the film, people kept on clapping and cheering the director and the cast. We were in the same room as Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo! How cool is that??

The actors live on the big screen

They're sitting right there!!

And I realized the other day that I haven't posted a picture of our tree in a while, but look how much it has grown!

As tall as Germain now!

Cannes Film Festival

So what did I do this past week?

I walked the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival and attending a showing in the grand theatre.....

=P

The Cannes Film Festival started this past week and through a friend of Germain's parents, we were able to get tickets to the showing of "Mr. Turner" (a British film) for the main showing at 7pm on Thursday night. Although the film itself was not extremely exciting, the experience itself was worth it.

Since it was a night showing, dress code was/is very strict. Being a black tie event, men have to come in with bow ties and women in evening gowns. My only fancy long dress was my red chinese dress, so that's what I wore....but as usual, based on what some other women were wearing, they seem to be a lot more lenient for women. Still, many people dressed up quite fancy.

Selfie!

Not particularly a fan, but LOOK it's Blake Lively!

Darn guy taking a selfie!

Looking fancyyy

The red carpet from the top of the stairs

In the grand theatre waiting for the movie to start

Spring Break 2014

Vacation... Ah...nice to have some relaxation time.

So for this vacation, we didn't plan a big trip, instead, I rested at home and figured out some lesson plans. But of course, we took some time to go out, whether it was to eat or to explore.

First, I've been craving Chinese food, so we went to an all-you-can-eat restaurant to eat our fill. It was a little expensive and the options were not plentiful, but the food was fresh and the environment was very calm and relaxing.

Little buddha chillin by the fountain

Also during my week of vacation, we took a visit to....i guess you can say it's a nature store. It sells predominately flowers and plants, but they also have some animals. We bought two plants for our balcony which are said to help keep away mosquitos.

He was thristy!

Aww...sleepyhead

I also had a little more time to make food! Of course, I forgot to take pictures of some of them (too hungry!) But here was dessert one night!

Apple Turnovers. Since I used store-bought puff pastry, I didn't have too many options on how to fold over the dough, so I tried two different options. What do you think?

This way allowed me to stuff more apples

This one had less apples, but looks more like a turnover.

And then there was our long walk. We drove about twenty minutes inland from Cannes. From there, we arrived in a cute little village where we started our hike up the mountain. Our destination were the remains of an old defense fort.....However, it was a bit disappointing. There wasn't much to see. Luckily, the hike up the mountain was pretty.

Pretty view

I think someone had fun arranging those rocks....so I added the top one ^_^

Pretty trail

Cute little wild flowers

So....that was vacation.....still not ready to go back on Monday =P But the year's almost over!