This year we decided to spend Christmas in Europe, visiting family and friends. We had two weeks on us and a lot of people to visit so it wasn't an easy task to accomplish. We started by visiting mormor and morfar (and uncle Fabien) in Tournecoupe down in the South of France. After a few days of enjoying the warmth of the countryside fireplace we spent a day and a half in Paris. After a hectic day of running around in Paris, there was time for a relaxing brunch with family.
After that it was time to fly to Finland. We arrived late on the 23rd but managed to get some sleep in time before Christmas eve. Unfortunately there was very little snow in Finland and the little snow there was soon melted away in the rain. But that didn't stop us from celebrating Christmas with a traditional family dinner with farmor's family. We then had an even more traditional dinner at farfar Bengt's as a storm had wiped out the electricity. Being without electricity worked surprisingly well (besides for the food in freezer) and we had a very nice evening. We also had time to visit some friends in Finland and Morgan visited old and made some new friends.
We started the new year in Paris before flying back home, Morgy got to spend the evening with mormor and morfar and we got to celebrate with our friends!
A few pictures:
After a long flight from Atlanta, Morgan and daddy are enjoying some food while waiting for the connecting flight
Everyone enjoys spending some time in the countryside house in Tournecoupe
Morgan and mummy get to spend some quality time together
Mormor Annie and Morfar Jean love reading stories with Morgan
And Morgan loves playing outside
And riding on the new horse... although, the horse is a bit scary...
Morgan gets a preview of Santa before going to Finland
Then it's more travelling on the menu. Morgan is getting good at managing the baggage claim
After a hectic day it's nice to relax with some food and presents
Morgan even got a LEGO airplane from uncle Fabs & Cathy!
Mummy finds it all very exciting
Morgan also got an (extremely noisy) steering wheel!
Then it's Christmas Eve and Morgan puts on his fanciest clothes
Everyone else is fancy as well
Morgan enjoys the food and chats up the ladies
Then it's time for presents, what could this be?
And it is.... a book!
Morgan also gives presents, here a DVD for gammel-mormor
The following day Morgan get's his first real contact with snow (last year doesn't count)
Morgan enjoys a tea-party with gammel-mormor and gammel-morfar
Then it's time for dinner at farfar Bengt's and Susan's without electricity
Morgan doesn't care about the electricity though, he likes the Christmas tree
There is also time for some fun in the park!
Morgan enjoys the sunshine
He meets both new and old friends
But most fun of all is trying out his new boots in the water puddles
The it's time for a final dinner at farmor Benita's. Morgan helps with the preparations!
Back in Paris Morgan get's to drive a car on the carousel
And try out his new rain clothes
Then it's time for the looong trip home. Morgan is not sleepy at all for the first 7 hours...
Back in Atlanta Morgan continues the luggage handling.. and is happy to be home with Moose the cat again!
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