Mom, Bernie, sister Sara, brother-in-law Doug, and their two sweet peas, Matt and Allie, came for the holidays!! A Colossal Christmas Visit it was! We even got the wild idea of taking 4 kids out of bed at 4 a.m. and flying to Paris for two days - a plan that ended up turning out beautifully. Pics and videos to follow!
They're heee-re!
Christmas market at the Rathaus (city hall)
In front of the market at Schonbrunn palace
Some of the beautiful wood carving in a Christmas market stall
"Don't make me have to use this"...
Snug as a bug in a rug, with Charlie Brown, of course
Nothin' says lovin' like my man in the kitchen...
Getting their giggles out before Christmas eve mass
Making lebkuchen for Santa
Kate works on Nonny's fabulous projectsPARIS!
Les Invalides
Notre Dame - copy of the original in South Bend. Although it's an excellent plaza for the ESPN Game Day set.
Sainte Chapelle
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We call the sequence of videos at the end, "Bad '80s music. Recycled. Badly." Whether you're in a Vienna grocery store or at their New Year's Eve celebration, your bound to hear Toto and Kenny Loggins, and the ever popular "Thank you for being my friend" (theme song from Golden Girls). And yes, they still groove to it here...Steve Winwood, Funky Town, and don't foget your pan flute...
Turbo Punsch? Two shots o' rum. Yum, says Steve. I'm still a fan of the Kinder Punsch.
The Christmas/New Year's punsch culture - you stand...you drink hot toddies with people you don't know...life is good.***
After Sunday Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral
And now, the good stuff...
The one good bit of music we did hear was performed by these fellows..
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