French Show Offs

Those Frogs showed us up again on our respective Christmas dinners. They had sauteed chicken breasts and shrimp to put into a sauce made of fresh tomatoes, leeks, garlic, mushrooms, and capers. It was served over a bed or rice and smelled and looked delicious.

And then they started showing off. While doing the moon-walk, a successive line of attractive young males and females filled desert mugs with slices of fresh fruit, yoghurt, and topping it with can after can of whipped cream. They had black turtlenecks on and smoked cigarettes afterwards as well. Well, actually there was no moon-walking and they didn't ALL have black turtlenecks.

And the Americans? What did they have? Campbell's Thick and Chunky soup. We did not impress those French. I had planned to eat mine directly out of the can, but was intimidated by the French into heating it in a pan and eating out of a large mug. But to spice our meal up over the presentation the night before, we had apple slices WITH carrot slices.

Perin and I did a 3-hour hike around Lake Alexandria and it was beautiful and just the right amount of exercise. It turns out that we weren't looking at Mt. Cook at Lake Tekapo. Mt. Cook was the next lake over (Lake Pukaki) and it did look about as awesome as with my parents last time.

Tonight we're in Te Anau and grilled up some fajitas with all kinds of fresh ingredients. Total show-off meal. And there's no-one to show it off to. We're in the equivalent of a KOA campsite and we have no one near us. Oh well. It tasted spectacular and we get leftovers tomorrow morning.

And speaking of tomorrow, we're off to the Milford Track. We'll update again in another few days. Hopefully we'll get the pictures up soon too.