Grande finale

Tonight we had a "petite fete" in honor of our last night at Cavalus, since tomorrow TS is leaving, too. It's our last night as "Hed" and "Madeesa" - we'll miss the accent. Ivan brought out a lovely bottle of champagne and some local wine. He was cooking some type of fowl for dinner (between a chicken and a duck - any ideas?) and all was well until he threw the entire pan of grease into the fireplace and started a chimney fire that extended into our bedroom, which is directly above the fireplace in the family room.

We threw water on it, of course, and managed to stop the flames within 10 minutes. Ivan said it's good when this happens because it cleans out the chimney for him, though "it is a little dangerous." We had a good laugh over that. It's a little smoky in our room now but luckily no damage done.

We had "French fries" with dinner tonight. Seemed appropriate for celebrating our last night in France.

After dinner, Ivan wanted us to burn our Cavalus pictures onto a CD for him, since we got some nice ones during this weekend's trek. That would have been no problem, except for the fact that we took a few pictures while cleaning the kitchen that we would have preferred Ivan not see. Miss Flora has this wonderfully chocolatey junk food cereal that only she is allowed to eat and we had a picture of Ed pouring the box right into his mouth. So, no problem, we thought. We'll just make sure to load the pictures while Ivan is not around. Unfortunately, Ivan not only wanted to be there while we burned the photos, he wanted to sit and look through 400 of them, starting in Greece, and with himself in control of the mouse - quelle horreur!! We had to grit our teeth during the "Hed is eating ze cornflakes of Flora!" comment but overall, it was fine. Lucky for us, Ivan was a bit tipsy by that time and couldn't be ruffled by much of anything.

So tomorrow morning we are up bright and early for our departure. We're glad that our final evening here remained true to form for Cavalus. We prefer to go out with a bang.


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