Roland Garros et Macarons

Well I don't think that this will be too long of a post because I'm incredibly exhausted right now and I already wrote about half the stuff that I intend on writing about in this post for some journal that I have to keep for my class, so it's not very exciting to me right now.

Anyways, yesterday, I got to enter the grounds of Roland Garros. The ticket only gave me access to the outside courts, but they showed the big time matches on giant screens outside the two main courts (which was better since I could then watch both matches at the same time). My friend Daniel actually managed to get into Federer's match, but I had no desire to follow him because i wanted to watch Jo-Wilfried Tsonga play the Djoker. Unfortunately, neither of the two matches went in my favor, so now I'm rooting for Fed (only during the next round). Speaking of Fed, I managed to get some good creeper shots of him while he was giving an interview (my camera apparently has 20x zoom that results in pictures of a surprisingly decent quality):

Roger Federer (too tired to think of a creative caption)

Anyways, I bought one of the towels that the men use to wipe their sweat off with during the matches...It was expensive. Let's just say that I'm probably not buying anything else (for myself) while I'm here...

Today, we learned how to make macarons. It was great getting back into the kitchen to relive the glory days of Culinary (Kitchen 2 FTW (unless it was kitchen 1, but I'm pretty sure we were 2)). The meringue was pretty easy to make, but the technique called "macaroning" was quite difficult (my forearm got pretty sore doing it). It was also pretty hard putting the macarons on the tray (when I finally figured out the technique to make them in a good shape, I ended up making them way too close together). Anyways, they ended up looking really awesome (they have to be refrigerated for 48 hours, so I don't actually know how they taste yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to eat all of them in one sitting...). Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures because I had put my bag away before I could get my camera out, but here's one that I'm stealing from my friend Anays of me and my friend Scott.

We were both supposed to have seductive faces, but I was laughing way too hard to concentrate (also, our macarons are pistachio flavored...so good)

It was all so much fun, and I hope we get to do more fun stuff like that (I think they're teaching us to make a French meal in 2 weeks when we visit Lyon, so that should be fun (plus I don't have to worry about not being delicate enough when cooking)).

I can't really think of anything else interesting to say. I haven't really done much since returning from Provence (man oh man do I miss it down there). Hopefully this weekend will bring some cool stories (I think I'm visiting Versailles with some friends tomorrow, so that should be a jolly ole time).

Au revoir tout le monde!