another visit to Nimes at holiday time
they really go all out here in France
HUGE ice skating rink
Look at me with my new French hat and boots.
small scale Christmas Market in Nimes
The buying of the tree
Homemade popcorn for stringing with cranberries!
"Just a hair off..."
"I'll put it right here."
The worker bees
"I'm helping." Note candycanes hanging on light strand - somewhat of a fire hazzard.
Our local Russan Christmas Market
Baking cookies with Nana
Thanks to Papa and Beth for the child size rolling pin - we actually needed it!
Montpellier, France
Seriously, are those palm trees?
Montpellier's Christmas Market
Pretty solid fake tree..
Christmas, thank you gifts for Ellie's teachers - "Traditional American Christmas cookies"
Our vineyard
Beginning of trip to Strasbourg, France
They seriously decorate here!
and seriously love yummy treats
Shout out to all our Costco's friends - Kirkland in France!
Christkindelsmärik in Strasbourg is one of the oldest, dating back to 1570 (and that useless fact comes from Amy, not Lance).
again, these people love their treats. Bought our Christmas Stollen here
Yup, that is a...
HUGE chandelier in a box hanging above the street. The streets were lined with them.
The first of many father-son "Cheers".
Micro-manage is the name of the game
Coolest door ever.
no caption necessary
"Look at that!"
Cathedral in Starbourg
Solid Shout Out!
Astronomical Clock
As you can tell, Ellie takes full advantage of napping opportunities when she is bored
Yes, gâteaux lining the street
The square in Strasbourg
Weekend trip to Basel, Switzerland
The Basel Christmas Market is the largest and most traditional Christmas market in Switzerland and has the longest illuminated Christmas street in Europe. Think Lance did his research?
It was a bit nuts if it wasn't totyally authentic, you would have thought you were at Disney
The nice lady, in the funny hat, who served us the glühwein.
OK - this is the coolest...a Merry-Go-Round BAR!
sorry - this purse was too funny or $500.00
"Oh, we are such posers."
"NOT - noogie time"
Should be on Ripley's Believe it or Not
How did they do that?
"A" for effort and execution on the decorations
"we're getting good at being somewhat well-mannered in restaurants"
Check out this AWESOME cheese guy who has been selling cheese for eons.
So we HAD to buy some
And he tried to pull a fast one on me and sell me half the cheese in the booth!
Bringing Amy back to her German roots with all the sausages.
White works this time
Now she's putting on a show of well-manneredness.
Loved the Swiss fondue and beer at this place.
Maybe not the best idea on a full stomach of melted cheese, rosti and .glühwein.
The night market was very cool
The coolest little interior courtyard in the government building.
See the photographer, anyone?
All he needed was the monkey.
"Not sure, these feel big"
"I love hotels - new fun toys. I only called the front desk 3 times."
Look at all the trucks witing to cross the boarder
Cutest seaside town of Rolle, Switzerland on our way home.
Check out those mountians
