In celebration of the 12th (and newest) book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, JoLee dedicated October 27 as Baudelaire Day. The Baudelaires are three unfortunate siblings who spend their lives running from Count Olaf, who is either their third cousin four times removed or their fourth cousin three times removed.
For dinner on Baudelaire Day we at spaghetti with puttanesca sauce, which the Baudelaire's had to make in the first book under orders from Count Olaf. We also ate a side of false spring rolls, which Sunny Baudelaire made in the 10th book. False spring rolls are an assortment of vegetables wrapped in spinach leaves. It's supposed to be prepared in honor of false spring, which could be any time other than real spring. We didn't have the spinach leaves, but JoLee didn't like that recipe anyway.
Here are some more pictures for your enjoyment:
JoLee posted the bio's of the main characters on our windows. The images of Count Olaf were especially helpful seeing as how he is still at large.
Okay, this picture is totally posed for which I make no excuse. (Sorry Gavin.)
JoLee makes any picture look great, but really the main focus here is the group of books on the table.
Looking back on the event, I'm not sure that we celebrated Baudelaire Day properly. We were all smiles and happy, but really the story is one of tragedy and woe. Perhaps we should have been more melancholy.
7 comments:
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I'm really glad it went well, JoLee. I know you were very excited for this dinner. I'm excited to see you at Thanksgiving. Happy Halloween!
~Paige
Both of you, for the record.
~Paige
fabulous, fabuous, I wish I could have celebrated with you.
I'm saving my book to read on the plane to and from Kansas. I'm looking forward to the great adventure-too bad I missed the dinner
Seriously, I need you guys around here to entertain me.
OK, so, at Thanksgiving at Grandma's house, there were 3 Lemony Snicket books just sitting there on the staircase. I thought, wow, I ought to read one. The next thing I knew, Grandma had given them all to Brooke. Well cool, now I could read them. So I picked up #7, "The Vile Village", and started reading, and then kept reading, and kept reading. What a fun book! I wish I could have celebrated with you. Oh well, next year.
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