Happy New Year!

We had a great Christmas here, even though we were missing all our family and friends. It was a nice relaxed day, went to the Christmas service at church, and then cooked ourselves a good old NZ roast lamb! They sell them here - and they're quite cheap too :)

Me enjoying a wee Christmas drink on our (very small) balcony

We also went for a walk along the Champs Elysees, which is the hugely popular road in central Paris with the Arc de Triomphe at one end, and amazing Christmas lights!

Christmas lights on Avenue des Champs Elysees

Christmas trees outside Le Pantheon & Notre Dame (both huge churches)

In contrast to NZ's tropical heat wave, we've had a rather cool time here in Paris. We had a week or so where the temperature didn't rise above zero degrees!!

Snow outside our apartment! (view from our bedroom)

Catherine all dressed up for a cold day in Paris, down the street from our apartment

We are very blessed to have such a fantastic apartment. We feel like we can call it home now, with all our boxes unpacked and mostly everything in its proper place - it's basically me letting down 'team tidy'! :)

The view from our apartment. If you look closely you can see the top of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower!