Wishing you a Healthy and Happy 2011

I found the following photos yesterday, taken in Paris a few days ago - wonderful shots - they brought back great memories of our New Year in Paris in 2007/2008.

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Love the one below - this photo was composed through a hole in a snowy wall facing the Basilique du Sacre Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) on Butte de Montmartre (Montmartre Hill - the highest point in Paris)

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A young Queensland cousin of mine and her husband are doing a dinner cruise up the Seine for midnight tonight - hope it is perfect for them.

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We do love Paris.

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The sun is shining today, and we started it off by walking from 6.30 a.m. along Currumbin Creek and Beach.

So much early morning activity at the entrance to Currumbin Creek beside Currumbin rocks

We then strolled along the beach - a lovely long walk "pushing sand" before brekky.

For our New Years Eve late lunch the Brig is going to barbeque some garlic king prawns on skewers, and my duty is the lime and herb risotto to accompany it, it's sort of just a nice time for Frank and I to look over 2010 and plan our activities for 2011, he has a largish birthday, and of course we have a 35th Wedding Anniversary sneaking up, so things to do!!!!.

Then late this afternoon we will wander around to Kumi and Bob's house to spend a few hours on New Years Eve with them and their friends, a little bit of Japanese culture tonight maybe.

How lucky are we just to be able to walk to a friends place as opposed to the thousands of Queenslanders who are in evacuation camps, or surrounded by floods right now, having lost so very much. The area of Queensland which is covered in flood is actually bigger than the TOTAL AREA of both France and Germany COMBINED.