Gingerbread Village

Leaving Rabat for the holidays. Most people we know here in Rabat, seem to travel and are more or less looking for spots with snow. The girls do request white landscapes. Solange remarked that the decorations were not as eye catching in the city of Lausanne as she thought they would. In Olliet, a small French village, 90 habitants, in the L´Ain department close to Geneve we overlooked the Mont Blanc. The sisters revisited Olliet to construct together with their three friends an amazing nice gingerbread village. A village almost as small as Olliet: dream houses, farms and mansions. Thoughts how to put on the roofs, designing light architecture became mathematical issues. Our host was well prepared, all the props were there. Colored candies, pearls, small figures and wooden sticks were all present at the table. The five girls and the boy made drawings for their own project and the gingerbread dough was house made and baked in advance. The small paltform next to the stairs changed into a working spot of an architecture office. In the evening construction elements of all different buildings were nicely laying side by side on baking paper, waiting for the next day. Windows were filled with melted sweets which gave them a glass painted look, magnificent. White snow frosting served as cement to put walls and bricks together. After two days the village was set up on a small black dark wooden table from Africa in it´s first design. The setting will be adapted and finished in the next week. Our friends plan to bring the village, after the holidays, to their school in Geneva. Solange felt good all the time although a little bit sniffy. She took some medications to keep here nose open. Solange´s friends told her at the beginning of our stay, they scanned the house for peanuts and nuts. Mission completed and full clearance. The house smelt after gingerbread. Good memories go together with the smell of good old home made ingredients and recipes.