Christmas markets weekend...

We went to Annecy again one afternoon when M's sister was visiting with us- Christmas in winter is really different!! Finally, i'm seeing and feeling what the Ang-moh christmas movies try to show us. They really can celebrate it - specialized Christmas-ware, real trees, lights... It's crazy. Anyways, we were there only a few hours and M decided it was not enough for the first christmas overseas, so we took off last weekend to Colmar, Strasbourg and BERN. My conclusion: the French can celebrate it better than the Swiss.

Colmar is beautiful. We spent a whole day at the Christmas markets and we did not even finish it. We had our first "vin chaude" (hot wine) and we ate churros!!! I went nuts with the crafts on sale and bought a few things for our tree. There were kiddy rides too so E was happy, he got to sit the train and i accompanied him on our first horse ride (fake horse 😄). However, M and I really struggled to carry E around 😰. He pooped after an early dinner so that was the signal to go back...

I put a pic of the hotel room here, can you believe it?? The bathroom and the bedroom are combined. Maybe they ran out of money to finish the wall. Hahaha...

The next day we went to Strasbourg. It was not as nice as Colmar but we did enjoy the food and crafts. The last day we were supposed to go back to Geneva and it was a 4 hour plus drive so we broke it up and stopped by Bern. We only saw one Christmas market but it was kinda sad. Expensive and no crafts. However, we bought our Christmas tree on the way home! M insists on having a real one as it's our first Christmas overseas... zzz... It is beautiful but our friend did not realise how much water it guzzles 😭, not to mention the falling leaves i have to sweep EACH DAY.

It's a little bare still but we will spruce it up... Now we have to start planning its funeral and burial...