Happy easter everyone! Just got back from our picnic down by the river, and what a lovely day it was! Sadly, the easter bunny didn't hop on down the bunny trail to Besancon, but no worries, France's easter BELL supplied me with quite enough chocolate. When I first heard about the easter bell, I was a bit taken aback...I mean c'mon, a bell? The notion was absolutely rediculous to me and my friends, and after a bit of research, I've learned that I am not the only one who finds this tradition to be strange. Check out the essay by david sedaris: http://quandmeme.net/blog/000019.html (just a note: the english in this essay is suppossed to be what they talk like in French...and I can totally relate.) Well, I don't have a whole lot else to ramble
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