A few things I forgot to mention...

Some of you are probably wondering when I sent that mass email what Montbonnot meant. Montbonnot is like a suburb to Grenoble, which is where my host family's house is located.
Some other things I've been wanting to mention:
King's Cake- la galette du roi- we've had this about three times now and it's so delicious. Different from the Kings Cake in the US it's much more pie-like with a buttermilk taste and no Mardi Gras colored sprinkles on the top. Whenever I eat it, I think of Mom. AND the babies in the last cakes were Harry Potter related. Hilarious. But Jan. 6th was Epiphany and we're still celebrating.
My cadeau(present) for my family- Well, imagine my surprise when I sit down to a huge lunch yesterday (the midday weekend meal) and the first course is, surprise!, chips, salsa, and jalapeno jelly on crackers. It was hilarious watching my family try and eat all of it- the girls my age loved the salsa and the others the jelly. It was great and such a trip to have Austin Spice Company Salsa in a freezing house in Grenoble in January on crackers. Hilarious.
Yesterday I went for a walk in the mountains with my host sister and boy, was it beautiful. Im working on the pictures now. It was magnificent- and the best day to do so. Everyone is always surprised that Ive never seen real snow, and ask me questions like, "How many pools do you have in texas?" It's so funny. But I played in it, stood in it, fell (glisee) in it- everything yesterday. I absolutely loved it. It was perfect. Afterwards, Maylis(my host sister my age) took me to a Raclette with a bunch of her friends at their apartment. Imagine me and about 17 French people my age, all speaking furiously fast in French and I was trying to contribute something more than "I like cheese" to the conversation. Hilarious and we MUST do a raclette when I get home. A raclette is where they serve cold meats and warm potatoes and you warm cheese in this kind of fondue pot but not really and you pour it over the meat and potatoes and eat it. Very yummy and extremely cost-conscientious. Im sure that's horribly mispelled, but Im rushing here. And everyone thought it was great that I was here trying to learn the language and I got compliments on my accent (except from Andre from Poland who told me my accent was tres different) but yeah. So much fun- and you would be amazed how much body language can add to a conversation.
I think Im going to add pictures now and I have to hurry home because buses and trams are unreliable on Sundays.
Oh! And the phone thing- I was wrong. Dont put the 0 in front of the 6 on my telephone number. So to call it's:
00133611981449
My bad.
Hope all is well!
Let's cross our fingers for pictures!
Toute a l'heure!