Holiday planning soirée

We are planning a trip to Mexico and California with some colleagues of Mathilde. The plan is to do a bit of eco-tourism in Baja California (where our good Mexican amigo JayJay has worked as a guide), and combine that with some Urban America (San Diego and San Francisco). Since some advanced planning / synchronization is required to make this all happen, we had decided to schedule a planning session/dinner at Valerie’s and Gilles’ place in far-away Bonson. After picking up Marie and JayJay in Nice, we headed down the Var valley and up the windy road which leads to the dramatically located village of Bonson…



Everybody was supposed to bring something to our soirée, it was up to us to bring the beer and a carrot cake. Logically enough, I was assigned to prepare the beer (ie. buy it and put it in the fridge), and Mathilde was tasked with the more challenging task of baking the carrot cake. Better that way around, methinks… (and that’s not ‘coz I’m afraid the beer wouldn’t be cold…).

The planning soiree was a great success, I feel. It has to be said, that we didn’t actually end up doing a lot of detailed planning in the end – but boy did we have a good time (I did, at least). There was plenty of food on the table – in fact, we weren’t able to finish, hard as we tried… Especially the deserts were, how should I put it, divine… Carrot cake, cheese cakes, and most importantly a huge pile of crepes with “La Preparation”. “La preparation” needs some further explanation – it’s a very special preparation, with nearly magical properties. I cannot tell you more – the recipe is top secret and all that. Suffice to say that I very strongly insisted another planning session is definitely needed in the near future.

So, as I suppose you’ve already realized, dear reader, we had a very good time indeed!