Well last year it was just awful weather, plus I also read there has been a metro strike 2 years in a row on December 8. A perfect time to remind people why automated trains are taking over. This year looks like it will be a winner though - plus we're right in the center of Lyon so we don't need any transit. Ha ha!
The city decorations are immense and have been going on for a while now. It's just amazing how many details there are. Even the lights in the metros have been changed to purple. The streetlights are red or blue. Every street has strings of lights hung across it. Trees are filled with blinking decorations. And then, there are the giant civic installations...
OK, I'm going to have to post a follow-up to this with some pictures because you wouldn't believe me. The giant statue of Louis XIV in Bellecour - is being turned into a humongous snow globe. In Cordelier, there now hang 5 giant lit globes that look suspiciously like one of those "perpetual motion" desk toys. In fact, I can see the hinges where the outer globe's beams attach to the super structure.
And in Bellecour, something we didn't know could disappear (but did) has returned. The gi-normous Ferris wheel. We saw this we when first arrived last January and it was so big we just assumed it must be permanent. Then one day in April it vanished! We hadn't even ridden on it! Now it is back and just as huge and permanent looking as before.
Anyway, you can just imagine how exciting it is to see all the preparation going on. Monica is constantly bouncing up and down.
Oh, and Eloïse insisted I snap this picture. I think this will have to become my new place or worship. The temple of cheese!
We'll talk to you later!
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