La Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris

On our walk home from running errands a couple nights ago, we decided to pass by Notre Dame Cathedral. Dusk had just set in and the sky behind Notre Dame looked stunning (hard to tell with these photos...we have yet to unleash the full potential of our camera). Emmett had been sitting in the stroller for quite some time, so he was happy to be freed.

A few nights earlier, we had watched as workers on a crane decorated the giant Christmas tree in front of the cathedral, so we were interested in seeing the finished product.

We also gave Emmett a chance to crawl to the very center of France, known as 'Point Zero.' Set in the pavement a couple yards from the main door to the cathedral is a brass marker, and distances from Paris to other cities in France are measured from this point. A few people had left coins on Point Zero which Emmett mistook for playthings and subsequently scattered all over with his little covered paws. Ooops. We pushed all the coins back and took that as a sign to move on....

After hearing part of the beginning of 6:15 pm mass and signing their Book of Life*, we headed home.

*Sad news from home...For those of you who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you have probably heard about the story of a missing San Francisco man named Jerry Tang. He is a close childhood friend of good friends of ours and someone I had the privilege of hiking with last year. Volunteer and search efforts have been tremendous and are ongoing. It's hard for us to not be able to help out from afar, but we are keeping close tabs on events. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.