Next stop-- FRANCE! Although we seemed to stay in Paris a lot longer than we thought, we covered enough of France to understand a few of their very important Christmas traditions. First, did you know children leave their shoes by the fireplace and on Christmas morning their shoes are filled with toys and treats!? Another Christmas tradition (that we got to experience) is something called a 'Yule Log'. A Yule Log is a very large, hard piece of wood, where in France the old tradition is to light the log. People would place decorations and food offerings upon it. As time passed, and many of the fireplaces in France began to disappear, the French created Yule Log cakes-- called the "Buche de Noel". These are part of many of the Christmas feasts in France! If you don't know what a Yule Log cake looks like, here is a picture (not our actual Yule Log that we ate; ours was strawberry and vanilla!):
Joyeux Noel!
Love,
Division 10
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