tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41018244770375388352024-03-20T03:17:11.379-04:00Mon Petit FromageThis blog is about my summer in Paris, oh and a little love of small cheeses while I am here.Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14589381560975188771noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101824477037538835.post-26696415041462055222017-04-28T18:13:00.001-04:002017-04-28T18:13:18.559-04:00Nous reviendrons!<i>We are going Back!</i><br />
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I miss Paris, not every hour or even every day, but I miss Paris and the way every day was an adventure. Many days were stressful and I failed several times and failed at very small things, the two that come to mind were both centered around an inability to order my food. I live in Boulder, CO with is a wonderful, wonderful little town. We make the top 10 list for many things mostly centered around outdoor sports. We have been in love with Boulder for coming up on nine years and moved here four years ago. It only took 9 months in Connecticut to know it just wasn't going to work for us. And we do love it here, but it is a bit like finally dating that guy you have had a crush on for a year. He really is cute and sweet and a great boyfriend, but he still isn't perfect and he leaves his clothes on the floor and never unloads the dishwasher and you start to wonder to yourself if the cute guy you had that summer fling with years ago would bring you coffee in bed the rest of your life. I am sure he actually wouldn't. The trouble with living someplace you use to vacation is living takes work and vacationing takes less. I am so happy to be here and have even had to make some hard choices to stay in Boulder AND have found the most excellent croissant bakery. I would tell you their name, but much like Boulder too many people already know about it and it is already too busy for my liking.<br />
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Sometimes Daniel and I go out to dinner at one of the french restaurants in town and normally half way through a bottle of wine we are deep into a memory and still can't believe the summer even happened. And by the end of the bottle of wine I taking about how we should already be buying plane tickets.<br />
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BUT WE ARE GOING BACK! I am so excited. My french is très mal at this point, actually that may be being generous. My french my be nonexistent at this point. So I have dusted off the pimsler audio cds and they are living in the car at this point. Sadly Rosetta Stone is downloaded onto my old computer which is more useful as a brick than a computer at point. And the new computer doesn't have a CD drive and I am debating the short term subscription of the new online rosetta stone things are maybe not progressing as they should. I also know that how well I can use the language will directly impact the fun of the trip. <br />
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Daniel got to go back for two nights two years ago, a job interview that could have resulted in our move to a town an hour out of Paris. It didn't work out which was disappointing but probably for the best, our daughter was less than a year old and the time wasn't great. Though I was so jealous of Daniel wondering around our old neighborhood and grabbing dinner on a sidewalk cafe. <br />
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The trip is less than two months away and did I mention I was EXCITED!<br />
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Life has been more than a litte crazy since we have landed back in the US of A. I landed in Kentucky around midnight so I could attend my sister's bridal shower the next afternoon. I was dead on my feet but still managed to be there awake in a dress and even won one of the games. Since that time we have been to West Virgina to see my parents, North Carolina to see Daniel's parents, New Jersey to see my grandparents, Pennsylvaina to see friends (when Daniel's office told him we would not start working on Wednesday but on Monday), and then to Fairfiled Connecticut where we are renting a room from a very sweet lady from Craig's List and have found an apartment in Norwalk.<br />
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Though sadly we will not be able to move into our apartment for another week, for those who have keep track, it will be two weeks here before we more into our apartment, a month since we lived in our own place, and 3 months since we packed up our house and I saw all my things. It will be close to 4 months since having our dog, between dropping her off before we starting packing and picking her up after my sister's wedding in September, I am sure I owe my parents something really good for Christmas. <br />
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Luckily renting a room has been an awesome choice as it feels like we live somewhere and Jill, the lady we are renting from, has a sweet greyhound and two sweet cats.<br />
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That would be Star curled up beside me and you can just make out Snickers on the sidewalk. Lounging in a backyard writing this post is way better than on the Econo Lodge hotel bed.</div>
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It seems uncessary to say I miss Paris, but I really do. I am sure this is amplified in a bit by finding myself once more in a new place right as Paris was becoming comfortable and familiar. It was a bit of an odd realization that we discovered we going though a bit of culture stock coming back home to our own country. Our first Super Walmart grocery shopping trip was a bit of a contrast to the open air markets of Paris we had just left. And while I was super excited to reunited with my mini cooper, if you know me know how much I love my car, it was amazingly odd to start driving again after a two and half month hiatius. I did my first true parallel parking today and despite my short car I was certain I was going to rear end the car behind me. And while I do enjoy milling my way through used book shelves I can't tell you the joy it brings me knowing I can walk into any new bookstore and know I will find what I am looking for.<br />
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It is still occasionaly feels odd ordering in a restruant and not rehersing my order before giving it to the waiter. I find I miss using my french very much. Don't get me wrong it is wonderful to return to world where I speak the same language as everyone else. I was so excited to banter again I was joking around with the US immigration guy when we landed, I think I made his day too. I spent two and half years attempting to learn french, the first year of that was before we even had a trip planned. It was not always the most rigorous of practice but I ran through two different audio tape series, three levels of Rosetta stone, watched french movies, watched american movies in french, read books on french culture, read children's books in french, wrote a blog in french, and annoyed Daniel practing my french daily on him. It never worked out for me to take a class and I certainly didn't make time everyday and probably not enough time as I should have but I invested a lot of myself in this endevour and it is odd to see all that perparation come to an end. I don't think I have ever work this hard and this long to choose to learn something before and I find I am at odds with what to do next. Should I continue to learn french so the next time we go back, and there will be a next time, I will be able to speak at 6 year old level and not a 3 year old, or should I start my focus on our next big trip, I am thinking Italian. I really enjoyed the feeling of accomplishment when I knew I could be understood and the apperciation and often encouragement I got from those I enteracted with. <br />
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I miss the food stalls, Sunday picnics in Luxenburg Gardens, just being a short walk from the Siene at night which provided sights I don't think I would get tired of if I saw them every day for the rest of my life, I miss the cheese, I miss the bread (God do I miss the bread), knowing there was always a new street to turn down and then having some of those same streets become familiar enough I no longer needed a map to cut between them, I miss the more adventure chic world of fashion and wanting to rise to meet it, I miss the french, and I miss that a situation like that requires you to be more adventrous, to be more open, to be more friendly. <br />
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These sort of trips are often refered to as once in a life time expereinces and I believe it was and I think in so many more ways than just the longest vacation I will ever take. It makes me sad because with the flurry of activity since coming home and making a new home it all seems so distance and out of reach. I think I gained a lot of exposure to things I would like to change about my everyday life to better reflect what I enjoyed about my life while in Paris, it just feels hard to do these things as you are living out of a suitcase and spending half your time driving. I worry I will forget.<br />
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This whole post is not to say I am sad it is over, I am, but my joy in having been able to do this trip way out weighs any feelings of loss. I consider myself very fortunate for the expertise and find a lot of joy recounting the trip here and flipping through my thousands of pictures, which I can not wait to be reunited with my printer so I can bring some of the Paris sights to my Connecticut apartment.<br />
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I promise the next post will be shopping.<br />
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Sorry I am a little late with this we made it back home. And have been pretty busy with all of the rentering the country, my cheese set off security alarms at the x rays both at Amsterdam and Boston, and the time zones, which has landed me with a bit of sinus/ cold. But I did wanted to finish up the trip for you so I present:<br />
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THE END OF AMSTERDAM<br />
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You can really see the wind rushing through my hair.. that might be the sunglasses.</div>
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I would like to tell you I did an excellent job steering, I did not. Though Daniel did let me occasional steer and then would take it back from me as we started to crash into a wall, a house boat, a moving boat. There was one very memorial moment when a pair of guys sitting on the ledge had to pull their legs up as we knocked into the wall below them as a tour boat was honking a aggravated horn at us. Luckily the guys found it funny I don't think the tour boat caption did.</div>
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Afterwards we got a drink at Cafe Brecht, a really fun coffee shop that felt like a cozy coffee from home. I am a huge fan of Parisian cafés but sometimes you just want a quirky cosy coffe shop. Though neither of us had a coffee, Daniel had a beer and I had rhubarb juice drink, a fun choice.</div>
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The dutch are known for their cheese at least that is what the dutch tell me. To fully appreciate this quality cheese we enrolled in a cheese tasting class. We got to taste six different cheese and learned about the fine art of cheese aging and the proper way to evaluate cheese. Apparently tasting the cheese is the last of the steps of evaluating cheese, Daniel and I just ate twice as much cheese.</div>
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I took three plans home, Daniel took four. We have already been to see my parents and now are visiting Daniel's parents before heading up to Connecticut. Thank you so much for following our adventure, we really did have a wonderful time and I hope you enjoyed hearing about it. I will probably be posting a bit more there are few stories I never got a round to telling, though every day was a story. </div>
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Our last stop on our trip is four nights in Amsterdamn, The Netherlands ... four nights on a house boat! </div>
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We are renting a houseboat we found off Airbnb.com. And are loving it.</div>
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Swanky ... We got the VIP loveseat in a box. This also came with waitered snacks, I had champaign. </div>
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Amsterdam has very quirky fun architecture at least compared to the uniform sleek look of Paris. Oh and they have trouble with buildings leaning here ... but they have worked it out.<br />
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Interestingly this church marks the center of the RedLight District. We did stop by and walk the red light district after the boat tour. It really wasn't sketchy during the day but it was odd to see the women posing in windows. Well at least they have a union and a healthcare plan here.</div>
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Finished up the day enjoying a storm, a thunderstorm is a whole new experience on a house boat, and we had a couple leeks around the windows, they just don't build them like they use to. </div>
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We said good bye to my beautiful Paris a few days ago and started our long round about journey home. Home is kind of a relative word as we will be staying with my parents and then Daniel's parents on our way up to Connecticut. </div>
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Our first stop is Brussels, Belgium. Chosen at random on our way to Amsterdam also chosen at random. We only had a little less than 48 hours in Brussels so we planned our trip very closely on the priorities of the culture ... Chocolate, waffles, fries (they apparently invented them), and BEER. There was not time to be waisted on dallying on Brussel Sprouts.</div>
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After getting in we headed down to the Grand Place which is suppose to be beautiful with ornate old buildings. It was crazy crowded with mobs of people in orange and yellow shirts, and pep bands blaring, and two chicken suits running round, and small raquette balls that kept rocketing out of nowhere.<br />
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Turned out to be the National Championship of Balle Pelote. It is a weird cross of handball played like tennis with the addition of goal post. In short it was horribly confusing, luckily two nice gentlemen tried to explain the game to us as we jumped back and forth between their broken english and our broken french, talk about a language exercise. </div>
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We ended up staying for the entire game we were both disappointed that yellow was not able to mount a full 4 game turn around. I am debating starting up my own league in Connecticut. The game took up most of our afternoon so we headed out to dinner afterwards.</div>
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First beer of the Trip, Hoegaarden Rosée.</div>
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You may have heard of the famous boy peeing fountain in Brussels, if you haven't, you shouldn't, and if you have thank me you have now seen it and move on to the next thing on your Belgium itinerary. Ta Da...</div>
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Post lunch was followed by more beer. The Ala Mort Subite bar still has it's original 1920's decore and some delicious micro brew Lambics. This one is a peach.</div>
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Ta Da ... truth be told there were five different chocolate shop stops. In my defense there are about three chocolate shops on every street block, the idea you could just go into one is ridiculous. What if you accidentally went into the worse chocolate shop on Brussels, what a waste of a trip, nope best to get two chocolates at a couple of stores and compare. </div>
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Paris doesn't really recognize summer starting until the end of July so I was excited to get a see one of the free outdoors movies before we left. It had been raining all day so we were a little worried especially since we had invited a few people to join us ... that's right we have people to invite. Ben joined us and I invited Jenny, from Chicago, we meet during the macaron class. </div>
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We showed up around 8:20 to picnic before "Gran Torino" started and were planning on renting chairs. <span style="background-color: white;">Chairs would be for rent at 8:30 so Jenny sat on a small bath towel while down sat on a plastic bag, we were looking pretty sad. At 9 they finally let us rent chairs though no promise that a movie would actually be shown. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">A nice bonus was our chairs came with giant blankets, our picnic was saved from our sad towel.</span></div>
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It started to rain just a little bit but we decided to stick it out and open another bottle of wine. Luckily it only sprinkled for about 20 minutes and the weather behaved for the rest of the night. We had a ridiculous amount of food that everyone brought which was great though we did run a little short on wine, so Jenny and I ran to a store for more. I really enjoyed getting to spend some girl time, Daniel and I have been spending a lot of time together.</div>
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Despite renting the five chairs we spent most our our time lounging on the blankets which were the real saving grace to our picnic. The five of us had a great time before and during and had to be shooed off the lawn after the film finished. It was our second to last night in Paris and spending it with our summer friends was a really nice way to wrap up an amazing trip.</div>
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We enjoyed our last bike tour so much we decided to do another on. This time we did a day trip out to Giverney and Monet's House and famous water lilies. </div>
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Before we biked out to Monet's home we picnicked in a local park. What was great about this was for lunch supplies Kit took us to the town square and pointed around saying they are good for bread, they are good for meat, they are good for cheese see you in 45 minutes and sent off all these english speaking tourist to small town markets. This is what we do most days for lunch so we didn't care but it was interesting to watch a couple of our fellow riders slog through ordering meat from french speaking shop keeps. I am sure that is what we looked like two months ago.</div>
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Oh and super pretty flowers all over the place.</div>
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<i>Je veux vivre ici. </i> (I wants to live here).</div>
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It is not as obvious in the photos but the gardens were slammed with people. We had to wait for a few minutes for a spot to open up on the bridge and then felt like we only had few minutes before it was someone else's turn. This is one of the only pictures I am not making a stupid face in, stupid light sensitive squinty eyes.</div>
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The pond section isn't even part of the backyard gardens. Forget painting I think Monet missed his calling as a landscaper.</div>
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It was a bit hot outside so just about about everyone bought a cold beer for the train ride back. Well just about everyone... I would not suggest this beer... I would really not suggest it luke warm.... just saying. Kit filled us all in on the Art movements before and after Impressionism on the train ride back, apparently the french still aren't really fans of the Impressionism. </div>
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Yesterday we got up to Musée O'say and L'Orangerie and was neat to see all of the Monet's paintings from his home having just been on the bridge and stood in the same spot over looking the pond.</div>
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Thought we are still in need of some more bike riding ... maybe Amsterdam...</div>
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The dessert of choice in Paris might not be what you think, those guessing the eclair are wrong, the chocolate mousse if fine, those thinking the suculent crepe should come around to the crepe as your new favorite lunch accucramont, lord knows I have. The hot dessert in Paris the macaron. To continue the plan to bring Paris back home with me in my over expanded suitcase I took a macarron class.<br />
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I figured after a three hour class at <a href="http://www.cooknwithclass.com/" target="_blank">Cooking with Class</a> french cusine school I would be cranking out macarrons like crazy after I got home... oh how wrong I was... but how delicious.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Our Pastry Cheif Briony melting white chocolate. She was great and really friendly, while it was a cooking class there was a lot of just watching her. Turns out I have been doing almost all of my pastry cooking wrong over the years. Melting chocolate ... wrong .... melting sugar .... wrong ... making meringue ... wrong. There were only 5 of us in the class so plenty of chances to see and hope in to help.</span></div>
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This would be a proper Meringue.</div>
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Something that is starting to look like macarons.</div>
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See mine are almost as good as the chiefs. Though it turns out ziplock bags with the corner cut out are not the same as pastry bags with tips ... who know?</div>
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They look like party favors.</div>
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We were all served espresso while we were waiting for our macarons to bake. By the way this is the first oven I have used in two months.</div>
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We mainly made small ones but Briony made two big cookies so she could show us how to make a show piece out of them. That would be peach sherbet with fresh strawberries.</div>
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As pretty as a desert as this makes it is not so pretty eating it as we devoured it in a matter of a few minutes.</div>
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Gold dusting the white chocolate macarons.</div>
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We made three flavors Blackberry, White Chocolate Lemon and Salted Buter Carmel. Fun fact: none of the flavoring is in the shell it is all in your filling. It is best to make your cookies up a day before you want to eat them so the flavor from the filling melds into the cookie better.</div>
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Luckily everyone got 13 in the class so we ate some and had some more a few days later, the flavor does get more intense but they were still pretty good an hour afterwards as well. Fun Note: the cookies two days later were much more apparent which batch the chief mixed up and which ones we the students mixed up, all tasty just not as airy.</div>
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Daniel decided we should make time for a run to Normandy and sort of D-Day appreciation trip. Normandy is fairly close to Paris and we are near the end of our trip so we decided to get up early and just spend the the one night there. Normandy is really only accessible by car so we rented a car for the day. By the way, this would be the first time we have driven since getting here. </div>
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They gave us a Ford ... not even a fun european model. Oh and almost all the cars are stick shifts so no driving for me. We later realized later I trusted his ability to not crash the car into something as much as he trusted me to successfully navigate us along. Final out come we didn't get lost and we didn't wreck the car, a rousing success.</div>
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Our first stop was to the Caen Normandy Memorial Museum, the museum outlines everything leading up to WWII, through the war, and then after the war with special exhibit on the D-Day. We spent over 4 hours there and didn't even make it to the the post WWII wing. Actually not too many artifacts, much more explanation, film and photos. It was really fascination and wonderfully informative.</div>
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We stayed right on Omaha Beach. It is a quite beautiful beach but was surprising how long the beach is at low tide and must have been that day.</div>
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In the morning we when up to Point du Hoc to see the artillery postion that had to be taken out to protect Utah and Omaha Beach. They removed all the debris but have left the structures letting nature overtake them again.</div>
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If it wasn't for the blown out bunkers it would be a wonderful place to take the family for a picnic.</div>
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We waked a bit more of beach. As I mentioned it is a very wide beach and while it was cold day there were still families playing in the water and building sandcastles. In addition to the children shivering in their bathing suits we saw a couple of elderly ladies walking the beach with what I assume to be her children remembering a father and a husband.</div>
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It was a bit of a somber trip but it felt like trip certainly worth taking. Made me appreciate the men and women of that time and appreciate the men and women who continue to serve the country.</div>
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We got a nice night and crossed off one of the items on our touristy Paris list, a bike tour. Paris is filled with cyclist which is kind of nuts considering how people drive here. Lanes are a very fluid thing I don't mean changing between them, I mean actually lanes. On the same block you can see a single car, two cars side by side, or some very pushy third car driving across, lanes are not marked.</div>
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So we meet up at the South corner of the Effile Tower with the Fat Tire Bike Tours for their 7:30 evening ride. No reservations, once they get 20 people for a group they just call in another guide for the next 20, we were group <b>seven</b> of the night. For those of you who followed my blog last summer and remember my <a href="http://cheapentertainment-ct.blogspot.fr/search/label/bike%20ride" target="_blank">My bike ride to Calf Pasture Beach</a> post you will realize how far I have come, that I was up for a bike ride through the city streets.</div>
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Getting ready to head out, learning about Ninja Mode and Domination Mode... ie how not to get mowed down in traffic. I chickened out and got the girl bike so I wouldn't worry about crashing while stopping the bike at intersections. No helmets were issued, Paris does not do helmets, but I did get this snazzy vest.</div>
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We ended up riding from the Eiffel Tower down to Notre Damn and Isle de City, where we stopped for ice cream, this is not exactly an intense ride. Then the Louvre and some of the bridges. I laughed that we got to take a tour of our own neighborhood, but it was nice to have all the historical facts that we have missed out on not doing much in the way of tours but just living here. </div>
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Getting in a few minutes to midnight we were the last group in, which was thankfully not my fault. I rode at the middle if not the head of the pack the entire night. The key to dealing with traffic seems to be just don't care, you stick your hand out they won't hit you. I don't know if that is true individually but it does seem to be true for when there are 20 of you. </div>
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Except the French don't call it that 14eme de Juillet, think of it as France Independance day or July 4th ten days later. I am rambling a bit .... Viva la France!</div>
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The theme of the show was 70's and 80's but we were surprised to hear 70's and 80's Disco Music. The show opened with "It's Raining Men" and ran the gamut of "Do the Hustle" "YMCA" "Last Dance." Surprisingly no Cher. </div>
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The crowd disembarking after the display was unreal, I can only imagine that is what it is like after the ball drops in Time Square. Traffic did not move as people cover the street in every direction. </div>
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Fun Day ... Viva La France!</div>
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(Vacation Vacation, Part two Antibes)</div>
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The second half of our Vacation Vacation was a trip to the
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View from the beach.</div>
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In transit we were stuck carrying 5 bottles of wine in our
very small luggage through all our public transit transfers, that will
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Antibes is a Greek town and has considerably more rock wall
cliff than sandy shores. Luckily our bed and breakfast, which was adorable in
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Me on the beach.</div>
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Two mornings in a row we woke up to croissants on the patio
then headed down to our little piece of sand. I read a lot and Daniel swam a bit. The French beaches are a scattered mix
of topless and topped. Yes I
joined into the topless sunbathing for about 30 minutes and yes that was ample
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In the afternoons and evenings we walked around the old
city, which certainly earned its name.
I know I have said it before but wow things are old here. The entire thing just looked like a
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Our B&B served cocktails in the courtyard every
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Our last night we took one of our wine tour wines out on the
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Sea food! Ok I can't tell you everything that was on our platter.</div>
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My frenching has been doing much better, I have even stepped
up and lead the discussion with servers as a few points. I bought a dress from a
sales lady that spoke little English, we made it work but Daniel definitely had
to work as a translator between us, even when I was speaking in French. But it was a fairly amusing experience
for all three of us. And I got a cute “gathering lavender in the fields of
Provence in the 1940’s” feeling dress.
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<i>Au revoir à la Plage.</i> (Good bye to the beach)</div>
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Daniel and I went on a vacation from vacation. There was no way I was going to spend the summer in Paris and not go wine tasting and see the French Riviera.</div>
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AVIGNON!</div>
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We spent the last two nights in Avignon which is part of Provence. Aside from the vineyards Avignon is
known for being the Pope’s short time home sometime during the 1300’s. Apparently another thing Avignon is
known for that we were not aware of was hosting a huge Theatre festival during
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We got off of an 8 hour train ride that involved getting
up at 5:30 a.m. and landing in the
middle of a street clogged with actors hulking show flyers, performances in the
street and every inch of every walk, fence sting hanging between wall and fence
covered and recovered in play bills.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Lavender</span> Ice cream! And it matches my shirt!</div>
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We took and easy afternoon and laid in the park on the island across from the city.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">After a dinner we took a ride of the ferris wheel and
enjoyed the street performers.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">The
novelty of street performers has long worn off for me but street performers
during a theatre festival are really stepping up their game, there were break
dancers, Asian silent magicians, native American chanters in full gear, belly
dancers... not to mention all the weird get ups the actors were doing in hopes
of luring you to their show.</span></div>
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WINE TASTING!</div>
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This is what we came for... wine. Sans our own car and having no
idea how you go about wine tasting we hired a guide Mike who runs a business
called <a href="http://www.winesafari.net/" target="_blank">Wine Safaris</a>. </div>
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Mike is Dutch so he
spoke excellent English and taught us way more about wine than I ever thought
there was to know. He took us to
vineyards and talked to us about the plants and how they grew, the south of France
grows hardly any grapes I have ever heard of. I also learned there are 7,000 kinds of grapes, we way under
guessed. Aside from being super
informative, I did not realized we had signed up for an educational trip, he was very relaxed and a bit goofy so none of that wine pretentious feeling. By the way there is a whole decoder
ring affect looking at the label on the bottle of wine I learned enough to know
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They first winery we went to was super mom and pops, we meet
the owner in a t-shirt and camo pants, made me laugh to realized vineyard
owners are just farmers when you get down to it. After a tour through the wine making room and a lesson in how
you make wine, I now know how to
make white wine from red grapes, and by "know" I think I know how other people
make it but am probably wrong. We
sat down to a wine tasting in their dinning room while grandma was cooking
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We showed a lot of self restraint and after trying 9
wines were not wasted. There was a
lot of spitting, don’t worry it is classy spitting. Sadly this vineyard does
not distribute to the US so we bought a bottle of the good stuff and headed
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sure. It was a wonderful meat kebab
with veggies and some odd but good melon and flavored ice thing. Medium rare does not seem to be an
option in French restaurant and when you say rare they mean it, but what can
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name of it and I am going to figure how to make it once I figure out what it
is. <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">I also believe I will be
designing my back yard to look like this restaurant once I have a back yard
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Wine does improve with aging in the bottle so long as they
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Daniel and I decided it would just be too much of a shame to
miss out on seeing theatre when we had stumbled on a theatre festival in France. After the wine tour we sat down with
the monster show guide and shifted through the 107 theatres each with their
half dozen to two dozen different performances for something that night that we
stood half a shot at understanding.
Luckily there was a key for shows not French speakers could follow. Editing out the concerts and dance pieces
we were left with about half a dozen “theatre” performances. We debated a while between the
performance piece and a play we figured out would be in French and finally
decided to man up and watch the French show. The show <i>“Rêveries d'une Jeune Fille Amoureuse” "Musing of a Young Girl in Love" </i>claimed to be a
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Very nude, sexually intese, very cool, artsy show in french.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The show was an incredible experience.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Reading the synopsis before hand, super
helpful, we understood the story revolved around a young girl discovering her
sexuality and a commentary about how society views sexuality.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">We had figured there would be nudity
given the time and subject matter ... and by the end of the show I had seen all half dozen of the </span><span style="background-color: white;">female</span><span style="background-color: white;"> actress nude, so yes </span><span style="background-color: white;">definitely</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">nudity.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></div>
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wasn’t that hard to follow the major themes and action of the story. At times it was very raw and violent
and other times were beautiful visual moments of love. Despite some shaky tech elements, a performance art piece
like that needs really sharp lighting and sound which is just hard in a space
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was hard to get a cross that we didn’t get the words but we got the show,
missed the finer details but got the concept. We didn’t hang out for very long, you hate to hold someone
up after a show. We exchanged emails with the ticket girl, but forgot names, she is coming to NYC in August so who knows.</div>
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More specially a Private showing of the Tim Burton Exhibit at the Cinémathèque.</div>
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Several weeks ago when we attended the Reddit Beer/Birthday meet up and had a really fun evening with Ben and Shaun, Shaun invited us to a work event. He works for Warner Brother's Paris office, they had arranged for a private showing of the Tim Burton exhibit after hours for employees and friends. </div>
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A British Pub, the entire menu was in english except for the beer descriptions, the one thing we were ordering. We enjoyed and hour of discussing the exhibit and once again comparing things you would think are the same between culture and are not. They were shocked to find out strip clubs do work like in the movies and we were fascinated to know how one tips a stripper in a currency of dollar coins. Sadly there is no coin garter purse like I was guessing. Proud ambassadors for the US.</div>
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We kicked started our 4th of July celebration with the great American tradition of hot dogs and a coke in a park. Despite our hotdogs coming in a hollowed out baguette, and our coke was made with real sugar (when was the last time you had one of those) and our park was beautiful - flowerbeds from a former palace. America!</div>
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We decided the another thing our American Holiday needed was American beer and fellow Americans. We returned to Brewberry and meet up with Travis and Katie who were traveling France/Spain for a few weeks. The waitress mentioned we had come a long way just to drink American beers, and then wished us a Happy Independence Day after we explained.<span style="background-color: white;">We stayed a little longer and had a beer or so more than we ment to, turned out Travis lives in Connecticut. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Daniel and I had made pasta salad for the American Church of Paris's 4 of July potluck. It did not quite live up to expectations and seemed to be a small gathering of Au Pairs and some older folks, and didn't really seemed to be church supported as supplies supported. We hung out just long enough to feel </span><span style="background-color: white;">awkward</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and then peaced.</span></div>
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I hope everyone had an amazing 4th of July and very large thank you for all of those men and women who have served our country. Tomorrow I will go back to being completely infatuated with the french but today, and every day I am proud to be an American. I was just much louder today... not about being American, just louder, have you ever noticed how loud we are when we are in other countries.<br />
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AMERICA! Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14589381560975188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101824477037538835.post-78570628343946725032012-07-03T19:28:00.000-04:002012-07-03T19:34:36.956-04:00Une Randonnée nous iron(A hiking we will go)<br />
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Daniel and I decided to take Monday and go for a hike. We hopped the train and rode for about an hour outside of Paris to a little town called Étréchy. It was a cute little town with houses built for snow and creative brickwork designs. We didn't walk far before we started up through the trail at the end of the street.<br />
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It wasn't long before the trail merged with country roads through farms. I found a little corn to play in, but mostly wheat, lots and lots of wheat.</div>
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There was another group hiking our same path with a two/three year old. The kid greeted us at one point and tried to alert us to something, but we could not make out kid french. I imagine it went "Look at all the wheat" when we passed the group again I did clearly make out <i>"Regarder les poulets"</i>"Look at the chickens." We laughed a bit when dad started singing <i>"Alouette."</i></div>
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We meander the town a little bit and finally found all two blocks of the downtown of the city. One things we continued to notice every single house had a fence and most were stone and looked pretty old. We got a eclair from the one open bakery, it was Monday, and sprawled in the local park and enjoyed a breather before heading home.</div>
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I wanted to buy everything, everything, but I don't have a project nor wanted to pay to fly home 10 kilos of beads in our luggage. Walking in and out of stalls of beads, vintage fabric, costume jewelry, and vintage Channel and Dior clothing I was so disappointed I don't have access to this as a show shopping resource. There were better vintage clothing shops in these "flea markets" then I have seen anywhere in the states.</div>
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The "stalls" are more like tiny store fronts and they are all wonderful and old worldly in themselves with ivy covered walls. I saw some of the most gilded furniture and was brave enough to wander into a couple Art Nouveau shops with vases that ranged in the 1,000 euro range, lies none of them were that cheap. I didn't even look at the writing desk and chandeliers, I appreciate the sales ladies who were friendly and did not treat me like the gawker with lack of funds shopper I was. </div>
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One fun thing we noticed was during the lunching hours several different stall owners would gather at a table with chairs for sale and would have a family style meal with wine. One shop was fixing their salad as we pursued the store. There would be anywhere from 4 to 12 venders enjoying their meal around a table, playing little attention to the shoppers until someone showed true intrest.</div>
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A drum line what must have been a 20ft. rainbow flag, a beautiful moment. I loved the excitement, there were DJ's on trucks, confetti bombs, <span style="background-color: white;">leather daddies</span><span style="background-color: white;">, drag queens, ..like... woah. and mainly a lot of people proud to be who there were. I was really happy to be there and experience it... a block from my apartment... just on the way home.</span></div>
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Daniel also noticing a striking resemblance of some of the statues to "Single Ladies" choreography.</div>
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Since one museum is just not enough, I went to the Louvre Friday afternoon to sketch. This was my very first alone outing. I handled it pretty well considering I got my tickets from an machine, you know baby steps. </div>
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I always enjoy sketching in museums and it was nice not worrying if Daniel was getting bored. After a few false starts I found a nice spot on the floor and camped out with this pretty lady. </div>
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It is amusing sketching in a museum some people try to nonchalantly peek at your pad while others blatantly just stare. I had one guy sit down next to me and try to start a conversation, in french...I think. I turned to him and politely said "I am sorry, I speak a little French" looked at him and when he didn't launch into English I gave a little shrug and when back to my drawing. In hind sight I should have said "I speak no French". I felt a little bad this is the second time someone has tried to start a conversation with me while I was sketching. </div>
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Daniel and I had dinner and then he joined me back at the Louvre for the late night hours. This is best time to go the crowds are thinned out we are trying to see the whole museum before the end of the summer. I will let you know how it works out. When we came out at the end of the night the carnival in the Tulleries was lite up including the Farris Wheel which we decided would be fun despite the exorbitant charge.</div>
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We toured through the carnival before we headed out for the night. Not a bad little fair : cotton candy, flume ride, oh and shoot your prize down game. That is right there is a Ipad hanging from a string and you shoot at it with an air rifle, love it.</div>
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Durring a computer switch somewhere down the line Daniel and I lost most of our honeymoon pictures, the ones on Facebook were just about the only ones left. We thought it would be a fun anniversary activity to go back and retake our remaining pictures. Our anniversry was a rainy day so yesterday we did it anyway. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Honeymoon</span> pictures and 5 years (and a couple days later) Pictures!</div>
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Daniel is part of an online community called <a href="http://www.reddit.com/" target="_blank">Reddit</a> which I consider to largely be a black hole of time and energy, though he reassures me it has redemaning qualities by finding information on just about any subject you could imagine. In brief, how the website works is it is made up of lots of small groups with specific interests such as motorcycles, sports groups, funny comics, and paris community. He joined the <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/paris" target="_blank">Paris Community</a> which has helped answer a few cultural questions we have had, as well as let us know about things happening in Paris. Reddit Paris occasional host "Meet Ups" one of which we decided to attend on Sunday, the theme of which was largely to celebrate June Birthdays at one of the few beer bars in Paris. The Parisians seem to be much up on the wine collection and less on an extensive quality beer selection.<br />
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We showed up to Brewberries (which seems to have a collection topping over 100 selections of beer) on a rainy Sunday afternoon to meet up with the people of the internet. <br />
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Fair or not I had set idea of Redditors being guys living in their parents basement, spending hours flaunting their internet superiority, some of these things were correct most of them were unfair portails. We spent a wonderful four hours drinking beer and chatting with Ben from England, Tommy from Australia, and Shaun from Amsterdam, by way of Aruba. It was a small gathering and I was the only girl, some internet stereotypes do hold water, but we enjoyed conversation discussing differences in all our english speaking cultures and discussing beer when there were lulls in the conversation. <br />
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Daniel and I tried not to be the crass/ loud Americans and I imagine we succeed sometimes and failed in others. Surprisingly we got into several high caliber topics as religion, politics and gun culture (which I am sure we seemed like gun nuts, by the fact I grew up shooting and Daniel has picked up the sport and discussion and we gave a fairly liberal american showing.<br />
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We were still having a good time after four hours in the bar so four of us (Tommy needed to catch a metro back) headed out for a quick dinner and then the England / Italy game (soccer). I did my best to remember to say football and not soccer. We swung into the french version of a Chipotle and I ordered my whole burrito in french, which is not a small feat. I find a little bit of alcohol seems to make my french more fluid, I won't swear I'm better I am just less worried about it. <br />
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Ben selected from three different "English" pubs before selecting one to watch the match from, I guess was he was trying not to overwhelm us with avid nationalist fans, as one pub we passed was spilling out onto the sidewalk with football fans. We settled into an appropriate hole in the wall bar and watched through two halves, a 30 minute over time and penalty kicks (a game ending on penalties kicks is not very satisfying by the way). Sadly England lost but the whole night was not a lost as I drank one beer too many and Daniel discovered Picon Beer, it is a liqueur you add to beer, very tasty. We may even have tentative plans for meeting up with Shaun again later in week.<br />
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A good time and enjoyable to talk to someone other than each other in Paris.Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14589381560975188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101824477037538835.post-43068398529044201922012-06-26T17:30:00.000-04:002012-06-26T17:45:59.976-04:00Le Racines(The Roots)<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The best, legendary, hard working, revolutionary, sure shot from Philadelphia P.A. The Roots Crew.</span><br />
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The first of the opening acts was a white rapper who was not quite bring it in stage presents. We got a great chuckle out of a string of french rap and then an occasional "shit" or "MF" apparently if you are going to curse in rap you are always going to curse in English... oh and "bang" "bang" also seems to translate pretty easily.</div>
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The second opening act was fantastic, and really enjoyable to watch despite again having no idea what we were singing about. We did learn such helpful french phases as " <i>Levez Vos Mains</i>" "Raise your hands" and <i>" Comme ca, frappe le "beat" come ca</i>" "Like this, beat the beat like this." It is always easier to translate when the speaker adds visuals. Another thing that seemed to translate pretty easily is when a crowd member is singled out for not participating, shame.</div>
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What a great show! They were so energetic, there was HS Band kick line choreography for the guitar player, bass, and tuba player. That is right Tuba Player, whose's best moment was when the top of his tuba fell off into the pit. They started the show with a cover of "Paul Revere" by the Beastie Boys and proceded to do such great covers as "Sweet Child of Mine" "Jungle Boogie" and I think Journey but Daniel says I am wrong, I say he is wrong.</div>
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Sadly no Jimmy Fallon, but who had time to miss him with the constant stream of music fly at you. I was so glad we went and was completely still into by the end of the show when everything had become fairly muffled.</div>
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Our view of not only the stage but of the huge clouds of smoke coming off the pit crowd.</div>
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What a great time... super exhausted afterwards... but worth it.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14589381560975188771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101824477037538835.post-48018924598457754562012-06-23T18:53:00.001-04:002012-06-23T18:53:11.144-04:00Grindelwald, Switzerland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Daniel’s parent’s came in for a visit spending about two days with us in Paris before the four of us headed out to Grindelwald, Switzerland. I realize I have fallen behind in some of the things we have been up to but I figured it was a good idea to post our most reason days and do the catch up posts if I can get around to it. </div>
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Switzerland!!!</div>
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Daniel and I went to Grindelwald for the second part of our
honeymoon and Bonnie and David are very much in love with this little tourist
snow town so we were happy to join them there for four days. I was happy for a
chance to speak English to everyone for a few days, despite the local language
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Grindelwald is a beautiful town in the Swiss Alps and we had
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<span style="text-align: left;">While the town isn’t covered in snow there seem to be endless hiking trails, which is largely what we filled our time with.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">The first day we went to the Jungfrau, billed as the top of Europe.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">And has plenty of snow year round.</span></div>
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We hiked for about 45 minutes on top of the glacier to a lunch hut in the middle of no where. It started to snow on the way back and I got my first experience with a white out. Hiking in the clouds sounds a little neater than it actually is (clouds are very cold) but a neat experience still. </div>
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Hello from the Top of Europe! </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Day 2</span><br />
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The next day we decided to not in a winder wonderland but in
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Day 3</div>
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This day had a very “Sound of Music” feeling to it as we
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More Snow!</div>
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We were told the hike we were going to take was closed due
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I even made friends with a cow, who seemed to be there just
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The euro cup (soccer) has been going on for the past few
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Sorry I have gotten a little behind. The weather has been really nice and we have been out doing things. Daniel's parents came in yesterday so we have also been busy catching up with them. We are off to Versailles tomorrow and on Monday leave for several days of hiking in Grindelwald, Switzerland.<br />
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Today Daniel and I celebrated our five year anniversery in the place we took our honeymoon. We had dinner at the same restruant we had our "fancy" dinner during our honeymoon. We didn't remember the name of it we just happen to be staying a block away from it and it looked famaliar.<br />
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We have been hanging out in the apartment quite a bit due to the weather and decided by Tuesday we needed to get out and since it was still kind of crappy it seemed like a good time to hit up a museum. I mean everyone else had this idea as well so you can imagine the line we stood in. </div>
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We ended up going out to breakfast Sunday morning, Daniel ran out to get croissants since were were out of bread and eggs, but came home empty handed. Of the three places you can buy a croissant in our neighborhood none were open this Sunday morn. Breakfast out is usually a croissant, a piece of bread, butter and jam, coffee and orange juice. Be warned Paris does not believe in the bottomless cup of coffee.<br />
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There were a few food venders but mainly small wineries, with was fine with me. For a euro each we got a souvenir wine glass and 5 free tasting, the wineries were trying to sell some wine so they weren't exactly sticklers about the 5 tastings. All the wines were good unlike a particular Muscadine NC wine festival I went to once. Mike, Sarah, I am not looking at you. </div>
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Daniel doing his best duck face. So I am made him stop.</div>
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I went off to buy my glass of wine after the tasting. Despite practicing how to order it with Daniel, I completely blanked as soon as I walked up to the counter. The woman working it was very sweet, looked at me and just said "you can use English if you like" which I did. I did ask her not to tell Daniel if we came back by. I did however order in mostly french when we went back and got a bottle of wine from the vender. So 50% win, ok probably more 45%...40% win.</div>
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Our carnage and my glass of wine. So tasty... </div>
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I will admit it I was a bit buzzed by the end of the event but it was wine buzzed so you know, still classy. We ended up getting two bottle of wine, 6 euros a peice! Wine is so cheap here! We also got our first sourviner for someone ... but I am not tell who or what. We really considered flying home some olive oil, but despite how good it is I just don't want to chance it exploding in my luggage, I don't care how many bags it goes in. </div>
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Promised from earlier: What our bathroom looks like when we trying to dry laundry. You will notice the drying rack straddling our tub. </div>
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