Trip to France (#12)

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  i ate. i ate. i ate. swordfish AND tuna, grilled on the outdoor grill of course, with some kind of sauce i've never seen but hope to eat again and again and again...with mashed potatoes, carrots (from Astrid's garden)...and something called cabbage that looked like a fat asparagus, but tasted awesome.
  
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  then i ate some more. because after dinner (oh yeah, and wine), we had cheese. a selection of about 6, yes 6, on a lazy susan.
  
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  and then she forced ice cream down my throat and gino went outside and got peaches off of their tree and grapes from sicily. jesus.
  
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  not to mention the appetizer: beer out of the beer machine, the natural salami that gino makes, baguette, and some kind of vegetable mix (yummy) they eat in martinique and guadeloupe.
  
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  i also drank some port and something called lemoncello. ARE YOU GETTING ALL OF THIS?
  
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  went to teddy's optician store (my cousin, the son of astrid and gino) and salivated over a pair of unique eyeglasses. small fortune, but hey...what're cousins for?
  
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  tonight we go to teddy and aurelie's for aperitifs and then back here for an enormous meal that astrid has already started to prepare.
  
  
  
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  oh my god.