Le Bureau de Poste

Hoping all your packages have been sent!

Lèche-Vitrines

In France the expression for window shopping is lèche-vitrines, which literally means lick the window. Since this is the season for shopping, I thought these photos of French window displays seemed appropriate. Although taken last summer, for me, they have a festive holiday feel.

Happy shopping everyone!

Le Féte de Noël

On Saturday Gracie & I attended the Féte de Noël at the Bibliothèque Française & Cultural Center. We had a lovely time at the party, planed for children to ring in the Christmas season, with "petit déjeuner avec père Noël". Unfortunately, my camera was out of focus for most of the event, but the blurry photos seem to add to the magical feeling of the day.

There was a breakfast of crescents & hot chocolate as well as other sweet treats ...... ..... ..... arts & crafts ..... ......

.... ....... .... an enchanting story hour that kept the tiny guests enraptured .... ...... ...... ...... and of course ..... ......

.... ......... ...... a visit from Father Christmas... ...... ......... ...... complete with his sack full of gifts ...... .......

Gracie left tired but happy with a new French book from Santa & a beautiful giant snow flake that she made herself.