(Friday)
Oncle François came for dinner, this time with my aunt; she was back home. (They had also come for lunch!)
We had the obligatory in the evening (#24)!
This time, it was really OF's bottles, I got it mixed up before.
(He brought two, but we only had one!)
We watched the olympics opening ceremony here, with incessant French drivel, sometimes inaccurate! They were talking about the poppies, and explaining that everybody wore them on 1st November, not the 11th. ... 1st November is All Saint's day; an important for the French (Catholics) and a bank holiday!
At least this time they stopped talking over the children singing, which they did not do for the little Chinese girl in 2008!
Otherwise, we loved it, and the Olympic flame was a surprise. We had wondered what they had been carrying, and thought it was some sort of symbolic flower basket or something. !!
However, I think that they cheated, and only the first 7 were actual flames from the original, the rest looked like they were ignited by sparks... I suppose the original flames could have been sucked down, and sent up the other pipes, but that would have been such an explosion risk! (?)
:-))
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