Well, I'm back from Bourgogne (Burgundy). My Easter weekend was mostly spent meeting my host father's siblings and cousins and their wifes, husbands, ex-husbands, children, second-cousins, girlfriends, and other assorted characters. It was quite an international affair- there was me (the token American), a German-speaking Italian, a German, a Russian, some Spaniards, and a kid adopted from Colombia. We ate several elaborate and delicious meals, of course. We visited the local museum about Gaulic civilizations which was pretty interesting. I accidentally slept too late to go to Mass. I thought someone would wake me up but by the time I got up everyone had left. Ooops. I watched them all sing karaoke. It snowed all weekend.
Bourgogne, as it turns out, is a beautiful area. It was difficult to see through the snow but we were staying at a large farmhouse-complex in the middle of nowhere so the scenery was very pretty. I didn't take any photos since I felt sort of weird taking pictures at someone else's family event but here's a photo of what it looked like minus the snow...
Ooh! I forgot to mention that my host parents bought a ton of chocolate to bring to the family reunion and share but then they forgot it in the kitchen so when we got back there was tons of chocolate for us to eat! Hooray!