Lyon festival of lights

Not a whole lot going on at the Château right now - we're working on putting up Christmas decorations in preparation for the Christmas open house on the 21st - should be lots of fun (most events with lots of cookies are fun for me). Patty Morris is coming up to the Château tomorrow, to spend a few days and will be working on finishing up the setup for our new accounting software - and I'll be learning how to use it. Debbie, Pam, and Maribeth have been continuing to work on room 1 - they've scraped all the peeling paint off the ceiling (which is quite a bit of work on those tall ceilings) and are working on patching and repainting it. All the walls are pretty much done though, just a few spots that need re-fixed, where the stucco texture isn't quite to Debbie's liking :) I'll post pictures when it's finished.

This weekend, we went down to Lyon (about an hour drive south of us) to check out the festival of lights. So I do have a few of those photos to post.



This guy was making the biggest dish of Tartiflette I've ever seen (not that I go out looking for it that often). Potatoes, bacon, onions, and cream - smelled delicious! There were a ton of food vendors out on the streets - next year, we're going to save our eating-out budget - this looks like a good place to spend it!






Several buildings were all "painted" with huge light projectors. This church is completely white/gray stone in the daytime - all the color (and some of the statues) are just images projected on the façade, and it was constantly changing. Quite cool.














Another building, all painted with light - again, by day this one is just white/gray stone.

...and one more of the light-painted buildings - this one had a whole story that took place on it (and the one above, they're in the same square) - Huge loudspeakers played the story and background music in sync with the images. Quite interesting (and a little sureal)