On the Playground

For our French lessons for the Day, we go to the French playground ("le terrain de jeu"), as many of our common playground games have strange names in France.

A swingset is "un balancoir".

A slide is a"un toboggan".

A merry-go-round is "un tourniquet", which of course means something entirely different in English.

And my favorite is the see-saw, which is a "un tape-cul", the word "taper" meaning "to tap" and the word "cul" meaning "butt"--thus, a "tape-cul" is named as such because you tap your butt on the ground every time you go down.

Today's photo: a bonus pic which was not even on the Christmas card for space reasons! It shows me eating some chouquettes (a little bit like doughnut balls, except the insides are more light and fluffy) in front of the Lido on the Champs Elysees. There is, however, a picture of me eating chouquettes on the card, but instead in front of the Louis Vuitton storefront also on the Champs Elysees.