In Cincinnati for the Holidays

Christmas in Jay's family in Ohio was a lot of fun and we had a great weather!
We went to see the ballet The Nutcraker, it was wonderful! The museum of contemporary art was not interesting except for the exposition of artist Julian Stanczak and the building in itself was amazing. We saw friends Ross and Em and their baby Bailey, we had a great time with Jay's friends from high school and his sister when we went out for dinner at the Sake Bomb and then for drinks at the Blind Lemon.
All in all great vacation!

The beautiful Christmas tree

Jay and his mom are making a cake for his dad's birthday

At the Aronoff opera house to see the Nutcracker

The contemporary museum by architect Zaha Hadid

Our favorite piece in the museum by artist Julian Stanczak

Merry Christmas and Joyeux Noël

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Ready to party

All dressed up to go to the Corgan Christmas party. Like last year, it was at the Women Museum in Fair Park. It was a lot of fun even if we didn't go to the after-party (I was wearing beautiful new shoes, a fatal error!) I was also wearing one of the designer dress I got for playing model on WFAA (local TV) for my friend Christie! As soon as I get the clipping I will post it.

Isn't he handsome?

I love that dress but it got all wrinkly very fast from just sitting :(

World record meatball

May we present you with the biggest meatball in the world!

The chef is working!

Ready for the oven.

Christmas spirit

Last week-end, we went and bought a beautiful Christmas tree. Here's some pictures of our tree and of us, full of Christmas spirit!

Jay with our Advent Calendar

A Little Dance

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!

Thanksgiving - Part II

Getting the stuffing out of the turkey

Carving the turkey

The chef

Gratin Dauphinois

Enjoying a nice dinner

Desserts: Pumpkin cheesecake and apple pie

Thanksgiving - Part I

So yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US. We had the day off, so we went to our friends Adam and Brad's place to share a great dinner.
Adam prepared a delicious turkey with great stuffing, the best cranberry-orange relish and of course sweet potatoes. Brad made the best pumpkin cheesecake ever, Bénédicte and Benoît brought creamy spinach, Sébastien took care of the cheese and we brought butternut squash-apple-curry soup and a gratin dauphinois.
Here's some pics of this nice and relaxing day, thanks to Brad and Adam!

Relaxing by the fire...

...While the cook is working on the sweet potatoes...

...And the turkey!

Almost ready!

Brad and Adam

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Car damage and Modern Art

So here's some pics of the damage on beautiful Versa's bumper.

Just scratches and some punctures

And a picture of the new painting we got at work for the Celebration of Science on wednesday the 14th.
The artist is Jacques Mandelbrojt, a french mathematician, theoritical physicist and modern artist.
The left painting represents Natural Immunity and the right one is Acquired Immunity, both paintings are very big so I couldn't manage to take a pic of the whole display.

Mario Galaxy and "petit accrochage" (fender bender)

On tuesday afternoon, Toys R Us was releasing the new Wii game, Mario Galaxy, at 5:00. And when you buy it, you get a $25 gift card! I couldn't miss this opportunity so after work I went to go get game and gift card.

Not only I didn't get the game, but I got in a little car accident. Beautiful Versa is fine, just some scratches and small punctures on the bumper, the only damage was the plastic bumper of an old Ford Taurus. I was just leaving a red light when the guy in front stopped, and BAM!

The evening ended well when my friend and coworker Adam called to say he got the game for Jay and I, thank you!

Beautiful Versa should be repaired very soon, no worries!

Wii got it!

Oklahoma week-end - Part III

Oklahoma week-end - part II