Andrew building dam wall
Ella and chateau
Samuel and chateau
Ella and Samuel at GruissanThe candles and tea lights that we had left over from Christmas came in handy last night when the power still wasn’t on. We have cuisinière à gaz (gas cooker) so I made dinner and we had some wood to keep the house warm.
After dinner we played 8 games of Uno by candlelight. Ella kept winning and Samuel got the pips. He said “I’ll never catch up”. Ella 4, Dad 2, Samuel 1, Mum 1. The kids have their DS’s too and Samuel looked at his Pokemon cards.
It leaves very little to do when there’s no power. I’m glad there wasn’t much meat and food in the fridge/freezer. We’ve been running down our supplies of everything because we’re moving in a couple of weeks. There wasn’t much in the fridge but I was sad to have to throw out my spaghetti meat sauce that I made the day before.
We spent Sunday, while the power was still off, at Narbonne Plage. We had fun playing on the beach, looking for shells and sticks and making elaborate sand chateaux and dam walls with big bits of driftwood. Narbonne had lots of big trees blown over in the storm.
Samuel ended up getting his shoes and socks soaked “accidentally” in the ocean so the kids took off their shoes and socks and rolled up their trousers. The water was freezing but they didn’t seem to mind while they were playing but after we had rinsed off the sand and dried off as best we could, they just couldn’t warm their feet.
We really expected our power to be back on when we got back from Narbonne but it wasn’t so that was kind of depressing.
After dinner we played 8 games of Uno by candlelight. Ella kept winning and Samuel got the pips. He said “I’ll never catch up”. Ella 4, Dad 2, Samuel 1, Mum 1. The kids have their DS’s too and Samuel looked at his Pokemon cards.
It leaves very little to do when there’s no power. I’m glad there wasn’t much meat and food in the fridge/freezer. We’ve been running down our supplies of everything because we’re moving in a couple of weeks. There wasn’t much in the fridge but I was sad to have to throw out my spaghetti meat sauce that I made the day before.
We spent Sunday, while the power was still off, at Narbonne Plage. We had fun playing on the beach, looking for shells and sticks and making elaborate sand chateaux and dam walls with big bits of driftwood. Narbonne had lots of big trees blown over in the storm.
Samuel ended up getting his shoes and socks soaked “accidentally” in the ocean so the kids took off their shoes and socks and rolled up their trousers. The water was freezing but they didn’t seem to mind while they were playing but after we had rinsed off the sand and dried off as best we could, they just couldn’t warm their feet.
We really expected our power to be back on when we got back from Narbonne but it wasn’t so that was kind of depressing.
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