1 MORE SLEEP

I am panicking a bit about the weather in Paris. We are not exactly well equiped with warm weather clothes and apparently it is 5 -10 degrees cooler there than usual.

Despite my best intentions the house is an absolute tip, I have not finished my Christmas shopping and it doesn't look like I will get new 'toons' downloaded onto my ipod. BUT...we are all very excited.

We leave tomorrow night at 9.30 from Dubai (then bus to Abu Dhabi). We get into Charles de Gaulle at 6.45 Monday morning. Rowena, my assistant from work will stay in the apartment and look after the kitties.

I will definately not miss the world ugliest Christmas tree. Completely trashed by the cats. They have had a great Christmas already.

COUNT DOWN TO PARIS

2 more sleeps until Paris! We are spending the days packing and making a list of the things we will need to buy - mostly cold weather clothes as it is SNOWING in Paris. The cats are having a great time getting into the fresh clean clothes and hairing them up again.

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