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[castalie]

Do you know about Cursed Episodes? Those are the episodes you never get to see, no matter how many reruns of the show you catch. Well, Cursed Episodes are but one little part of the whole Cursed Stuff Family - they can take the shape of pretty much everything. So I? Have a Cursed Event, namely Christmas Markets. No Colmar and no real, traditional Christmas Market for me this year either. It was cancelled this morning. So instead of leaving work at noon and being on my merry way to Alsace with my family, I stayed at work and I'm just, working? Except for how I'm taking a break to write this, obviously, but still...

Seeing I'm sorta the talkative kind, everyone at work knew I was really looking forward to it and when I told them I wasn't going this morning, they were like "but it's been ten years!" and "want a hug?". So that was sweet :-)

I'm disappointed, obviously but what can you do, right? I might go to a Parisian Christmas market tomorrow instead. Not the same thing but still lovely...
Hey, so you know how it snowed yesterday? angeliksmall took some photos when we were in Choisy so I'm sharing. Because a) I think they're great and b) snow.pictures, the end.


Me, starting a little snowdude. Except it was just for the picture so I didn't finish it.


Snowball! Mittens! Barge in the background! Christmas lights!




Awesome contrast, here, right? Cookie takes great pictures ♥


Those were all taken outside of the station. On the left you have the railroad and the trains and on the right, the bank of the Seine.




I really love that pic (and the one above) because it doesn't really look like you're right in the city, near a station. I could totally forget about the train on the left and the weird dudes that are always gathering in that area.


This one was taken from the bridge that crosses the Seine.

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I'm hoping we'll get to leave early today. Hopefully nothing will fall on our desks at the last minute *fingers crossed*

Comments

[whitevanilla.livejournal.com]

Awww no Colmar! That sucks. Big time. I'm sorry you're not going. :(

But take joy in the fact that you have so much snow! That's pretty impressive, how much there is. Wow!

I'll take a coupon! I haven't had a paid account in years, so $10 sounds like a deal!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I was very sorry too! But we'll try next year, right? And I did have a great weekend nonetheless, so.

I sent the coupon, btw, hope you got it?

[whitevanilla.livejournal.com]

Good, I'm glad you had a good time. :)

I did get the coupon! Thank you! I'm hoping it doesn't expire for a while, since I can't use it until after the New Year (when I get paid again). :P

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

French snow looks so much more glamorous somehow *g* Lovely piccies thank you - and what a shame about the market :~( Some things are cursed ::nods wisely::

[castalie.livejournal.com]

French snow looks so much more glamorous somehow *g*

Lol Imagine if I'd taken photos of Paris under the snow, then!

Glad you enjoyed them *g*

[enigel]

Aw, I'm so sorry you don't get to go to Colmar! :( I remember your first post about it and how excited you were. What happened?

[castalie.livejournal.com]

My disappointment was as high as my excitement but some things aren't meant to be. Well, no, we'll try next year, I mean! Hopefully it'll work out this time *fingers crossed*

[sperrywink]

Lovely photos!

Sorry about the Christmas markets.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thank you, on both account.

I had a great weekend, anyway. And we'll try Colmar again next year *fingers crossed*

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pictures!

I'm sorry about the Christmas market. We have nothing like that here, sadly.

I really need to get some of my Christmas icons out of storage....

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll let Cookie take all the pics from now, they always turn out so well *g*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are gorgeous! But I'm sorry about the market :(

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was disappointing all right. But like I said in my mail, I still had a lovely weekend, so it was good. Just, definitely a tad different from what I had planned :-)

[whitevanilla.livejournal.com]

I just read this! I hope you weren't there! EEK!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I wasn't in that train at all, no worries *hugs* It could have been a real disaster but there was no casualties, thank God.

Going to Paris is proving a bitch at the moment, though. The last couple of days, there were zero train going and it's not going to improve by much in the coming week - they're even saying it could take months before everything goes back to 100% normal. Damned driver who was under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

[whitevanilla.livejournal.com]

I've been hearing that. Yikes!

*clings to my car*

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

Snooooooow ♥!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Yes, snow! I got to see snow again three days ago when I was in Normandie. First time in my life I saw sand covered by snow! And! They're talking about more snow in the coming days so fingers crossed they're right *fingers crossed*