Calm After a Pleasant Storm

Our Holiday party was last night and I think it was a success. We had way way too much food and now we have a house full of cookies from our cookie exchange. Guess who will be taking left over Polish food to work on Monday?

Now I am trying to relax and trying to get ready for my trip to Paris. Fortunately, I can dress pretty casually when I am there. Does anyone know any good yarn stores in Paris? I am going to have Saturday to myself to shop. I am looking forward to seeing the City of Lights before Christmas, but I must admit to being a little nervous about the whole trip. My French stops at:

Ou le taxi, si'l vous plait?

and

Je ne parle pas bien francais. Est-que vous parlez anglais?

I don't think I am going to get any time to edit my BLOG, but I will be taking the Furz scarf with me. I've got 16 hours of airplane time, so maybe I'll make some reasonable progress since I only have 2-4 hours of laptop time. It's gotten pretty cold here in Chicago so I could really use the scarf about now! When I get back, my amazing sock knitting friend, Julie has promised me a hands on sock knitting lesson. Hopefully by then my tensioning skills will have gotten a little better.

Julie also just delivered my beautiful Longaberger baskets. Two small ones I ordered are going to go along with two of my "top-secret" Christmas knitting projects. The other basket is going to be a "small project" travelling basket for my knitting.