What we ate in Paris- Shelley

The best food in the world is in PARIS! We used to go "bakery hopping" with our allowance money. We'd go from bakery to bakery trying to find new pastries that we'd never eaten.
We ate crepes, of course, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In the morning we often had yogurt, which came in a pack so you couldn't pick everyone's favorite flavors. There was ALWAYS a cherry, which noone wanted and we would always argue about who had to eat it. Dad would hide the yogurts behind a cereal box so no one knew. Whoever ended up getting it would whine enough that mom would pretend that Cherry was her favorite flavor....poor mom...
We used to make quiche, potatoes in a white sauce, fried potatoes and onions, and apple tarts alot. Melissa and Rachel were secretly trying to win the hearts of the elders by making them lots of apple tarts I think...
Once, Mom went on a trip back to the U.S. and brought back a whole box of american food. What a loot that was! It had mac and cheese sauce packets, brownie mixes, etc etc. We were so excited!
We ate alot of produce there. I think that's where we all got attached to fresh green beans. We also loved the asian pears. When our family bought spinach at the small produce grocer, we would wipe out the whole bin.

Memories of the Treehouse- Shelley

I remember begging dad to build us a treehouse in the aspen tree in the backyard. I don't think it was really an aspen tree, but that's what we called it. We used to drag bags of leaves up there in the fall to use as chairs. Sometimes we would drape blankets over the edges and branches to make tents. We often played a game where there was some sort of mysterious "monster" in the backyard. We lived in the treehouse, the only safe place of course, and had to avoid this monster and collect food (leaves and raspberries) while running away from the moster that inevitable chased us back to the treehouse.
The treehouse had a rope ladder that you had to climb to get up. Although it was anchored at the ground, it often twisted as you climbed and so we had to develop certain techniques to climb up (especially if you were in a hurry because the monster was coming!)