Chocolate Chip Cookies

One of the most popular American dishes known in Europe is the chocolate chip cookie and everyone loves it. The chocolate cookie in France is more hard and crunchy than the soft chewy American version. My friend Coco [who is German] really wanted to learn how to make them, so one Sunday we got all of our ingredients together and attempted to make them.

 Mixing butter and sugar... French butter is probably the best butter I've ever tried!!

 Mixing up the dough

 Adding in the chocolate.. we added dark chocolate, milk chocolate and M&M's

 Before putting in the oven

 After baking

Mmmm gooey goodness

Carcassonne

On our trip we stopped at this small village named Carcassonne, and in Carcassonne is a small medieval "city" called Cité de Carcassonne. La Cité is a medieval structure that  holds a smaller tourist area today, but it's history is over 2500 years old and has had a lot of people walk through its streets. The city has about 3 km of wall, and 52 towers throughout its perimeter. We hiked up to the city when we arrived in Carcassonne from the train station, and when we finally enter La Cité the view was very amazing. I didn't do it justice with the photos I took. Sorry there are so many people present in my photos in this post, it makes me feel like I'm posting in facebook.

Les Vacances

We had our week of vacation the week of Oct 26, so of course every one left Poitiers. I took the week off and traveled a little bit in the south of France, Barcelona and Paris. It was a great trip, and I will spread out the trip in various post.. which I promise will be consecutive.

Our first stop on our trip was in Toulouse. Toulouse was an amazing city with lots of musicians and hipsters, everything was pretty there.

 One of the buildings in Toulouse

 Coffee/tea break we took in a cute "American" style café

Tea timer! (3mins, 4mins, and 5mins)

 A nice door in Toulouse

 Some ruins

 mmm.. art work!

 Someone's house

 We left Toulouse Sunday afternoon, and these are some pics of us waiting for the tram.. they are suppose to be a little nostalgic because we didn't want to leave. 

After Toulouse three of us left for Carcossonne, and Coco left back home to Germany for the rest of the break. I really love the ease of traveling in France/Europe, travel like this would be impossible in the US without a car. 

Where does time go?

Sorry for not updating my blog in a while! I promise that I will write a new post soon!
I have been on vacation for a while because we had a week long break which turned into almost a week and a half because today (Tuesday, Nov 1) is a national holiday so they gave us Monday as a break also..

Here a pic for the mean time!