Dreaming of a French Christmas

Decided to start our Xmas celebrations with Christmas Eve dinner at... a Chinese resto. It was tasty! To continue the culture mix, I decided to have profiteroles. Yum...

Next morning, had a sleep in (as per usual! Lol), then set off to the zoo, munching on waffles for breakfast! It was a fairly chilly day, so was quite pleased to head into the rainforest part of the zoo. A little bit more like NZ Xmas weather.

Saw lots of different animals, including kangaroos.

I promise there were real ones as well, but here's Kingi trying to make peace (I smuggled him in).

Christmas lunch was looking like it was going to be a non-event for a bit. Nowhere seemed to be open, since we were out of the town centre. Wandered past a few places - all closed - and, just as we were giving up, found a dairy that was open.

So, a well-appreciated lunch of sandwiches, chips and waffles!

Next on the list was a Walk around a nearby park. Nice to spend Xmas arvo close to nature. There was also a fitness trail in the park.

Sabrina was hard at work doing the exercises. She also did sit-ups for about 5 minutes! Although, I can tell you that she regretted this the next day, lol. Anyway, this nice family came along while she was in the middle of this, and one guy's comment was: Ca fait digérer la foie gras! (More or less "that'll work off the foie gras!")

When we did return to the hotel, we ended up accidentally gate-crashing the hotel owners' Xmas dinner to eat our couscous in the corner of the dining room! Once again, we hadn't trusted any restaurants to be open, so had gone to another trusty dairy. :)