Our boat tour :)
We were on the boat with Einstein!
The country house :)
Wine-tasting :)
Reading at the Eiffel Tower :P
View from the top!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
April 11, 2011 part deux
Patricia and I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower today. It wasn’t really anything special, in my opinion. I thought we were going to be a lot higher than we were. They did have good French fries though. Or pommes frites, as they would call them here. When we came back, I went into our room to keep reading Perks but ended up falling asleep. When I woke up, the three of them were gone and had left me a note saying that they had gone to a fabric shop. I watched some Criminal Minds, but fell asleep again. I’d only just woken up a few minutes before they came home. We really just had a kind of boring day today. Tomorrow we’re going to the Moulin Rouge, which I guess will be fun. I don’t know what I’ll wear though, and it’s at 10:30 so I’ll have to take another nap at some point tomorrow. Then on Wednesday we’re going to go to Versailles. MJ is going to go with us, which will make it a lot less stressful for me. I know Francesca and Patricia don’t really get all that stressed out about stuff like that but I do. It will help to have someone who can speak French.
I keep meaning to do a longer post here, but we keep going out and not getting back until basically bedtime! And I'm so bad at doing the photos, but it's just that they take so long to upload. You will get to see them all, though, I promise!
April 11, 2011
Again, sorry about the no posting yesterday! We had quite a busy day, what with the flea markets and the wine tastings and then driving back into the country. I will post more in-depth later, along with pictures from the three or four days I've missed!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Sorry about no post yesterday! We had a long day - left the house around eleven and went back to the Eiffel Tower to take a boat tour along the Seine, and then went to an art show of MJ's friend's, and had dinner there. We didn't get back until about eleven thirty, and alas alack, the internet wasn't working! We mostly just took it easy yesterday, though. I'll post pictures in a bit.
We are now at the country house, out in Volgre. It is absolutely lovely here. The house is seriously like something out of a fairytale storybook. It's amazing. And there are Miss Rumphius flowers here! It made me quite excited, even though no one knew what the hell I was talking about. Not big readers, this group. Especially not of picture books.
After a couple of hours of being here (eighty degrees, by the way) the four of us girls went into town and went shopping, leaving Rob to finish mowing the lawn and to start dinner. I got a cute new outfit, and we all had our first crepes in the country! (Hard to believe it's taken us this long, isn't it?) I will post pictures of everything later, though we didn't take any pictures of the cute little town - we were too busy shopping. :) But for now, I'm going to go bask in what's left of the sun and read. :)
We are now at the country house, out in Volgre. It is absolutely lovely here. The house is seriously like something out of a fairytale storybook. It's amazing. And there are Miss Rumphius flowers here! It made me quite excited, even though no one knew what the hell I was talking about. Not big readers, this group. Especially not of picture books.
After a couple of hours of being here (eighty degrees, by the way) the four of us girls went into town and went shopping, leaving Rob to finish mowing the lawn and to start dinner. I got a cute new outfit, and we all had our first crepes in the country! (Hard to believe it's taken us this long, isn't it?) I will post pictures of everything later, though we didn't take any pictures of the cute little town - we were too busy shopping. :) But for now, I'm going to go bask in what's left of the sun and read. :)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
April 7, 2011 photos
The view from the apartment
And the other side...
Across the street...
Puppy!
Patricia and I in front of the Eiffel Tower
Francesca and Patricia in front of the Eiffel Tower
The humorously parked car :)
April 7, 2011 part deux
I have blisters galore after all the walking we did today. I probably should have worn my sneakers again, but a) they didn’t look as cute with my outfit, and b) I thought my boots would be fine. But no. Admittedly, I may not have gotten such horrendous blisters if we hadn’t gotten lost looking for the bookstore. Paris streets are horrible… The street the bookstore is on literally split into to streets, one on either side of a park, and there were no obvious signs dictating that that happened.
But we found it eventually, and I got five books – two for me, and three as gifts. The two for me are the fifth Harry Potter book (which is probably my favorite out of all of them, though it’s hard to say) with the European cover, plus in paperback, which makes it easier to carry around, and one that I can’t remember the name of and I am far too lazy to get up and look in the bag because that means walking on my aching feet.
We didn’t get out of the house until about quarter to noon – Patricia was not very receptive when I went in to wake her up. (Although apparently Francesca would have been… Weird.)
Other notable sights of today were the Eiffel tower and Notre Dame. The – I guess you would call them gypsies, though that always brings up images of women in vibrant colored skirts and bells and things, and these were all men – gypsies were plentiful there. And then there were girls pretending to be deaf to try and get us to sign something, though what good that would have done I don’t know, since we’re not citizens. But the real sights were not the Eiffel tower – no, in fact, it was the boy (I think he was probably like nine or ten, Francesca insists that he was sixteen or older) who decided to strip naked and go swimming in the water in front of/behind the tower, and then the car that had been backed up between two posts onto the sidewalk, but couldn’t get out again. (The mirrors were hanging by the sides, to give you an idea of how close together the posts were.) From the Eiffel tower we went looking for the bookstore, and after that, Notre Dame.
And actually, another funny thing happened at Notre Dame. Patricia went up to pray, and Francesca went to “explore” and I sat. Because churches are not my thing, plus this was towards the end of our day so my feet were killing me. So Patricia does her thing, and then comes back to where I’m sitting, and asks me where Francesca is. I shrug. About five minutes later, Francesca walks up to us, trying not to laugh. (It should be known that Mass was starting as this was all transpiring.) As it turns out, somehow she had gotten back to where the priests lie in wait for the music to start so they can enter, and ended up following them out onto the altar while Mass was going on, before making her way up the aisle to us.
But we found it eventually, and I got five books – two for me, and three as gifts. The two for me are the fifth Harry Potter book (which is probably my favorite out of all of them, though it’s hard to say) with the European cover, plus in paperback, which makes it easier to carry around, and one that I can’t remember the name of and I am far too lazy to get up and look in the bag because that means walking on my aching feet.
We didn’t get out of the house until about quarter to noon – Patricia was not very receptive when I went in to wake her up. (Although apparently Francesca would have been… Weird.)
Other notable sights of today were the Eiffel tower and Notre Dame. The – I guess you would call them gypsies, though that always brings up images of women in vibrant colored skirts and bells and things, and these were all men – gypsies were plentiful there. And then there were girls pretending to be deaf to try and get us to sign something, though what good that would have done I don’t know, since we’re not citizens. But the real sights were not the Eiffel tower – no, in fact, it was the boy (I think he was probably like nine or ten, Francesca insists that he was sixteen or older) who decided to strip naked and go swimming in the water in front of/behind the tower, and then the car that had been backed up between two posts onto the sidewalk, but couldn’t get out again. (The mirrors were hanging by the sides, to give you an idea of how close together the posts were.) From the Eiffel tower we went looking for the bookstore, and after that, Notre Dame.
And actually, another funny thing happened at Notre Dame. Patricia went up to pray, and Francesca went to “explore” and I sat. Because churches are not my thing, plus this was towards the end of our day so my feet were killing me. So Patricia does her thing, and then comes back to where I’m sitting, and asks me where Francesca is. I shrug. About five minutes later, Francesca walks up to us, trying not to laugh. (It should be known that Mass was starting as this was all transpiring.) As it turns out, somehow she had gotten back to where the priests lie in wait for the music to start so they can enter, and ended up following them out onto the altar while Mass was going on, before making her way up the aisle to us.
April 7, 2011
It's about nine-fifteen as I start writing this, and I'm the only one up. I was pretty proud of myself yesterday - no naps whatsoever! I made it until about nine-thirty last night and then I was just out. However, I did sleep through the night, so that's good.
We didn't make it to Shakespeare and Company yesterday - instead, we just walked around the neighborhood, went up to Sacre Coeur and went into shops. I tried a few things on, but none of them fit me quite right, so I ended up just buying a scarf. I also bought three postcards that are basically the cutest things in the entire world. So cute, in fact, that I'm having a hard time deciding who to send them to because I just want to keep them for myself!
But probably my favorite purchase of yesterday was the gelato - I had the yummiest mango gelato in the entire world yesterday. That was towards the end of our expedition. After that, we just came "home" and hung out around the house. Patricia showed MJ some things she's been working on, and I read The Little Prince. It was a nice, quiet first day in Paris.
Today's agenda: Shakespeare & Company and the Eiffel tower! Guess I better go wake up the two sleeping beauties....
We didn't make it to Shakespeare and Company yesterday - instead, we just walked around the neighborhood, went up to Sacre Coeur and went into shops. I tried a few things on, but none of them fit me quite right, so I ended up just buying a scarf. I also bought three postcards that are basically the cutest things in the entire world. So cute, in fact, that I'm having a hard time deciding who to send them to because I just want to keep them for myself!
But probably my favorite purchase of yesterday was the gelato - I had the yummiest mango gelato in the entire world yesterday. That was towards the end of our expedition. After that, we just came "home" and hung out around the house. Patricia showed MJ some things she's been working on, and I read The Little Prince. It was a nice, quiet first day in Paris.
Today's agenda: Shakespeare & Company and the Eiffel tower! Guess I better go wake up the two sleeping beauties....
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