How to Get Fat in France

Step 1: Eat this for lunch....

Too many Google results for "food coma"

• Duck
• Bread
• More duck
• Pig 
• Raw Oysters
• Some type of fish
• Wine
• More duck

Dog version of me

Well, that's the only real step I guess. And needless to say, a food coma came on quickly. I almost didn't make it up the stairs in time.

Besides eating, for my first real day yesterday, I woke up late and went on an adventure with Owen the dog. I also brought in some wood. I figured something productive should happen during the day. And wood was for sure the only thing I actually did. Brigitte and Phillipe have friends visiting, so as soon as they got here, out came the champagne, souffle, salami, nuts and olives...this was just the beginning. Then we moved on to dinner. For dinner was a beef stew (please note it wasn't duck this time) and a cucumber salad and of course some red wine. I lied when I said besides eating. This is really more of a food blog, all I do is eat and then pass out because I ate too much. It's easy to eat too much when everyone is speaking French but me. My 10 key phrases that I have learned aren't really ones to throw into the conversation. I think it would be rude and confusing to ask where the bathroom is or how to get to my train. I've become really really good at sitting and listening to French though. It's good motivation to use the hell out of my French books.

How I must look to everyone when I'm listening

On a totally different note, I think I should share with America that fridges are totally last season....The fridge is bare here because the eggs...they sit out, the cheese....there's a cabinet for it, the meat....it hangs in the kitchen (that's what she said). I haven't gotten sick from eating all of this, so I am really confused why everything gets refrigerated and why everyone is so paranoid about gets things into a cold place. Chill out (you, not the food), apparently it doesn't matter.

Cheese cabinet

Note: I will try to use less animal pictures in upcoming posts, this is not a promise, but I will try my best. They just work so well!

Alright, I'm out, I think it's about eatin' time, which means it's also about nappin' time.