Christmas Cracker play

Rio with her best friend Lottie.

Christmas Cracker play, performed by Reception, Year 1 and 2.

It's always so rewarding to see the final production after hearing bits and pieces of songs over at least a month or two. I was particularly interested in the origin of the Mistletoe song:

"Under the misteltoe you and me
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Under the mitletoe you and me
Just one kiss or two or three
Kissing, kissing, I'm so happy I want to sing
Kissing, kissing, it's cold outside
But in my heart, it's sppppppppring!"

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you the best holiday season and a happy New Year!

Maia, Kai, Rio and Ila

15 Minutes of Google fame...in Paris

If you enlarge the images you'll see Maia and Ila in her red poussette, strolling down rue Lagrange on June 12, 2008, sometime around 4PM. Or you can go to Google maps Paris streetview and search for 15 rue Lagrange.

Google made most of the faces fuzzy, as the French law prohibits photographing a person without their consent.

Truly unfortunate that they succeeded in obliterating my and Ila's face - with all the lawyer friends that we have :)

Late October in Southern France

We do have a sheer talent for going to Southern France during their rainiest weekends or weeks. It was so rainy on most days that I didn't even bother filming, as we were just sitting in the car, driving across the Alps (trying to get across to Italy to escape the rain...and to our surprise finding snow on the other side).

But, we did manage to hit the peak foliage in the mountains, which was quite beautiful, especially in the remote parts, with heavy clouds hanging below us.

The food scene was quite disappointing. Nice is filled with a load of low quality Nicoise restaurants serving canned tuna on big lettuce leaves. That is if they bothered with that at all - I've never seen more pizzarias in my life. The only restaurant that truly stepped up to the southern French cooking reputation was L'Oursin in Antibes. An eighty year woman was celebrating her birthday there - so you know that place must be the best one in town.

Video footage was taken in Nice, Antibes and the French Alps (via highway it takes about 30 minutes to get to the high Alps region from Menton!).