It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

So.. I ended up going to Lyon after all for the Light Festival. My friend Jurek and I were chatting away on FB and we both decided how much of a waste of day it was, so Jurek proposed to get off our butts and head to Lyon. It sure was a pay off. I had a great time. All the way from the hitch hike there, to the guy feeding us at his restaurant, to getting lost on a bus, to trying to find everyone in a crowd of 1million, to the fireworks, vin chaud, shooters with a man dressed in a weird white bunny costume or something like that, to the actual lights, and the funny train ride home where I ended up sitting on the floor in between two hilarious french people that made me almost pee my pants!
Thankfully french classes ended last week, so Monday morning I didn't have to wake up early. Can't wait until this semester is over! Last week :)
I had theatre rehearsal Monday and Tuesday night, and while Monday night consisted of the "suspense" and we got the cops called because some girl walking by thought someone was being murdered in the building, to Tuesday night when I had to practicing singing in french for the first time in front of people. Man is it hard.
The productions are January 27, 2010 and I just pray I'm good to go by then! lol.
I did all my Christmas shopping this week at the "Marche de Noel" and enjoyed many yummy treats along the way. I can't wait to ship everything back home!
I didn't go snowboarding Thursday like planned, I decided to give my knee a rest for this weekend, but enjoyed a really good dinner with John with the best calzone I've ever eaten and then went to Crepe Night with some friends!
Fortunately for me, class was canceled on Friday morning, because I had yet to do my long overdue school work, so I went and got "mes forfaits" for this weekend snowboarding, and headed back over to the Marche de Noel. I even bought a little Christmas tree for my room, and one of those Christmas plants (I don't know what they're called, but they're pretty).
Laura's birthday was last night, and we celebrated with fajita's and vin (chaud aussi)! I retired early so I could wake up this morning for the wonderful, long and excellent day of snowboarding. Conditions were great! It started snowing about 12pm and hadn't stopped when we left. I have a feeling I'm getting some fresh powder tomorrow! I love living in the Alps :) I knew I chose Grenoble for a reason, and I think it chose me too.
Christmas is only two weeks away. I still haven't completely finalized plans for my holiday. More than anything I want to go home. I never realized how much I missed being with family and friends for the holiday's until I actually Couldn't be there.
It looks like I'll just being boarding quite a lot until about December 22nd. I'll head over to the UK and spend Christmas there and then fly into Paris on the 30th for New Years Eve. I have to figure out when I'm going to Morocco in January, and I'd really like to take another trip somewhere during our break. I've figured out I'm very "a la rache!" So whatever happens, happens! :)
Gotta get up early to hit up that fresh powder!

A bientot!