La Buche

It's comforting to know that some things in life are constant. Every Christmas Eve, I know for certain that I will be spending a couple hours of my day with my dad crafting a holiday tradition: La Buche de Noel. It's a cake that looks like a log. You make a tray sized, super thin sponge cake, coat it with custard, roll it up and coat that with chocolate frosting. I was really happy with the way this year's turned out! Here's a couple of pictures. :)

Fall Quarter 2012

I'm sorry for the unacceptably long blog-silence. After I left France, there just wasn't as much that seemed worth writing about. I was too busy moping about the end of such a glorious summer. Honestly, I eventually forgot that PicoElise even existed. And the fall quarter I somehow just miraculously survived through was stubborn enough to keep it that way. What's more, I maybe took two pictures in the past four months. How pathetic. Often I would think to myself, "Oh, that would make such a nice picture" and feel lucky that I was surrounded by such a pretty photogenic place populated with pretty photogenic people.  But that somehow never translated into action.

ANYWAYS I'm going to Oxford next quarter! Yay! More about that to come, I promise. This blog will be converted into a travel blog for the next few months, dedicated to my adventures abroad. I really hope I get to take a ton of pictures and have time to type to you all (the hundreds of dedicated fans) some funny stories of an awkward American floundering in European winter. Stay tuned!

Here's a picture not really related to anything; just one of my favorites that I've taken. Blog posts don't feel complete without a picture! :)