November 11, 2007
This afternoon we went olive picking at my friend Karin's Annual Olive Party. She is an American, married to a Frenchman, and they live on a beautiful property that was formerly an olive tree farm. Every year they host an olive party where basically, you pick olives off her trees with these long rake type things, they fall into nets that have been placed all around the trees, dump them into bins, separate them from the leaves that have also fallen and take them to be pressed into olive oil. For me, it was a really neat experience, and I'm very excited for the litre of olive oil that we have "made".
On Saturday, the weather was perfect, so we took a long family drive around the surrounding villages and cities after our early morning swim class with Andrew. We started off with a coastal drive into Cannes and ended up in the quaint little village of Biot, where we walked around and got pastry from the local "Patisserie".
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