Living in Paris - November and December, 2006

We had an exciting two months! We kept busy these last two months. We invited several friends to our flat for dinner. We traveled by Train Grande Vitesse http://www.tgv.com/ (High-Speed Train -- some are 200 mph!) to Champagne, France and took a tour of the Mumm (pronounced moom) Champagne cellars.

We also found some time to do some holiday shopping. While we were shopping we enjoyed the window displays on Boulevard Haussman. Even when the stores are closed, families travel to see these beautifully decorated store windows. It was such fun to visit and enjoy the wonderful talent! We enjoyed listening and participating in the holiday music concert at The American Church in Paris http://www.acparis.org/.

Then we spent a wonderful (but busy) holiday season with our family and our friends in the States. We had our traditional Christmas Eve open house, adding several recipes that I learned to cook in France. Later in the week, we said goodbye to our family as Howard's sister Kathy traveled back to California and Paul and Aubrey traveled to Sokcho, South Korea to begin their year teaching English in the AP Academy and Jon traveled back to New York City to continue living and working there. We have returned to Paris to continue our work and, of course, to enjoy the City.