Liz put some of her skills to use a few days ago, teaching some of the ladies in our branch how to make cinnamon rolls. They had never seen this done, but had heard about how good they were. She's using the dining room table and, after they spread out their balls of dough (which Liz pre prepared), she's showing them how to add sugar and cinnamon prior to rolling them up.

Cinnamon rolls and the Relief Society (well, about half of the ladies in our branch). From left to right:

Charlotte Martin, Maryvon Livory, Liz, Christine Hebert.

They had a good time, and I hear that they were able to get the rolls eaten without any problem.

The finished product up close. Yes, they tasted as good as they look. Liz froze the batch at the top, and we fed most of them to our elders at District meeting yesterday. I can't complain, because I did get to eat 2 1/2 of them!

A view of the city of Cherbourg and the harbor, taken from the top of Mount Roule, the highest point on the edge of the city. There is a large ferry boat at the end of the dock, and the huge circular building on the left is Pasteur Hospital.

You can click on the picture to see it enlarged.

This is not a favorite tourist town, but we think it is a beautiful place.

Cherbourg was not a beautiful place in the 1940s. It was one of the most important ports in Europe, and was overtaken by the German army early in the fighting. Thousands of French troops escaped from here on boats to England one day before their conquerors took over the city.

Fort Roule. We visited this place a few days ago. It is now a museum, and we spent about two hours wandering through it and reading about the war. I only took a few photos.

This granite building and a myriad of runnels bored in the "mountain" (it's only several hundred feet high) were a command post of the German occupation of Cherbourg in WW II. You can see some of the tunnel exits/gun emplacements just below the top of the mountain.