December 14th

Someone new has arrived in the neighborhood!

It's Kurt's girlfriend!!!

Mayor Kurt picked her up at the airport early this morning! She's been going to cosmetics school in Paris all this time! Now she's already in her Grand Emporium uniform ready to get back to work. What a great worker!

Aw look, she brought a loaf of authentic French bread back for her boss the Saleslady, who says she loves fancy foreign food, but really likes normal food that sounds foreign.

You know what cosmetics is, right? Anything that makes you look or smell more beautiful or handsome! They really teach it well in Paris, so now Kurt's girlfriend can work the Grand Emporium's makeup and perfume counter!

The Saleslady is glad for a break, because she prefers working upstairs in toys, or outside at the ice cream stand. You'd think the Emporium wouldn't sell much ice cream in the cold of winter, but the snowman's advertising really brings in customers!

Wait! Look upstairs above the snowman! Through the big wreath!

Mayor Kurt also happy his girlfriend is back from "the City of Love," and she seems glad to see him, too! They must have really missed each other! Now John knows what the Saleslady meant when she said Mayor Kurt "saw something he liked" when he came shopping there a long time ago -- it was his girlfriend. He was always hanging around the Emporium, because he was waiting for her to come back! And those letters he was always mailing were to her in France! And she was the one that sent him the toy airplane that looked just like the one that flew her back home! All the mysteries solved in one day, hooray!!