“Et l’heureux gagnant est…………”!

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Today we embarked upon the pétanque courts by Fisherman’s Wharf to play our first rounds of pétanque! (For the unfamiliar, according to Wikipedia “pétanque” can be thought of as “a form of boules where the goal is to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet, literally ‘piglet’, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petanque.)

To begin, Donna did a fantastic job at teaching the rules…

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…and a passer-by sweetly offered to help us distinguish “les boules” from

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On s’est tous vraiment bien amusés! But who had the best pose?? Votons ici pour le meilleur joueur -ou bien la meilleure joueuse- de pétanque!

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(^ Merci bien à Julie de nous avoir prêté le jeu!)

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(^ C’est bien Akissi qui est arrivée à tellement confondre l’équipe de Julie!)

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