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Sunday, December 07, 2008

Kicking off the holidays

We kicked off the holiday season this year with another delicious turkey for Thanksgiving. A whole turkey is a bit hard to come by over here, but the local butcher where I buy my wild game from always manages to get me a good one.

Sean and Sandra are moving back to America this week, so this will be their last Thanksgiving in Holland for a while.


Stuffed full of turkey and mashed potatoes, I jumped on the bullet train down to Paris for a week of training. It was an incredible facility built around one of the old Rothschild estates.




The chateau itself was the restaurant and bar, while the more modern facilities were constructed behind it.


Of course I had to skip lunch one day and get out and about on the more than 200 acre estate. I came across these old stables tucked away from the conference/training facilities.


...and looking closer at the sign, I guess that they REALLY, REALLY don't want you climbing over that fence! Land mines?!?!?!? In France?!?!?


That'll grow hair on your chest! Or your head in my case....
Don't forget to have fun on YOUR holidays!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, nice do!

Great to see you're keeping the stuffed turkey tradition alive in the Netherlands. We tried that once and ended up spending about $80 on a turkey. Een duur kalkoen, he?

Hey, we're enjoying following your Haarlem adventures and dream about our time in Europe. We'd move back in a second.

But on a positive note - we're supposed to get about .5 M of snow tomorrow. The langlaufen is great here.

-David en Renee

Anonymous said...

This 12 pounder is about all that will fit in our little Dutch oven and it was about 45 Euro...wel duur!

Wish we'd get a little snow over this way. The Alps have been hammered so far this year, but not much up our way...sounds like a road trip!