Our last real day in France:( We spent it relaxing in Palavas. Our hotel was the one of the blue ones in the middle. We toured the beaches and the town - its a really neat place built right there on the water. Definately a tried and true fishing community. And it was...
We had breakfast at the hotel in Palavas - see what I mean about it being sheik? 🙂 Then, we headed out to Nimes, one of the great cities of ancient roman architecture. Unfortunately for us, there was a festival about to begin. The Maison Caree looked under...
This day was the day we made up for missing Carcassonne. We were in the heart of Cathar Country - it is named so after a kind of inquisition period, where the Cathari religion was being exterminated. (Interestingly, the phrase "Kill them all, God will know his own" is...
We went to Narbonne on this day. Its a wonderful city - lively and restful and historic and modern all at once. They have preserved part of an ancient Roman road, which was cool. We also experienced just how nice the French are - we parked at a meter and I was trying...
Today was scheduled for Carcassonne, the whole reason I convinced boy to go to France. It was quite a drive, and we got food at a gas station on the way. I also included a picture of the gas prices at the time (euros for litres of diesel). We were to stay at La Maison...
Today was a very exciting day for me! We were to go visit the Lascaux II cave, an exact replica of the original cave, housing some of the oldest known paintings on the earth. I remember taking an ancient art history class, and thinking this was very cool. And once I...
In the morning, we stopped at the Monkey Forest, where we had croque monsieurs for breakfast and then hand fed popcorn to Barbary Apes (which are actually macaque monkeys, not apes - yes there is a difference!). I can now check off something on my ToDoBeforeIDie List...
After our wedding, we drove to the Chateau de la Treyne, on the Dordogne River - another breathtaking place. This day included a pre-breakfast breakfast (with strawberry juice!!), a hot air balloon ride at Rocamadour, breakfast (with kiwis and personal quiches!),...
We want to share with everyone a special thank you for: Joi Mahon, at DressFormsDesign for helping me pull together ideas and designing my gown and boys suit. And for introducing me to Megan. Megan, at PrincessLasertron for creating an awesome corsage and boutonniere,...
Okay, okay. These upcoming post have been delayed an unreasonably long time. But without further adieu....This is the day we got married! (Well, as you would have read before, we were legally married on the 9th, but had our symbolic ceremony on the 11th.) Originally,...
We landed at the Charles de Gaul airport and it was absolutely huge. We walked so far to get to our next flight, but the staff were all friendly. We were able to get our tickets changed without a problem so that we could continue the rest of the flight together. We...
Bright and early, we headed off to the courthouse as sneakily as possible. Although we were the first people there, the offices communicated to each other about as well as eggplants do to dogs. So, after an hour and a half of waiting, we finally met with the judge and...
Now that I have finally been able to catch up on emails, I hope to start sorting through our France photos. I have been quite the busy bee at my new house also - the craft room is almost complete. I need one more organization unit and then everything will have a...
Ill get to writing about my France trip soon I hope. I am trying to tie up some loose ends on selling my condo, buying the house, and making it livable. Until then, I had thought of this list so check out what a crazy year I have had so far: I started theCrafties My...
Nous sommes en France:)
Today, I called the country of France. I have to do this several other times, all for reserving the hotel rooms, but it was probably one of the most stressful things I have done. (Kudos to Vonage for giving us free Europe calls;) I intended on speaking French and...
I have no crafts to speak of, nor photos to share, but after much delay in deciding our france trip, we have finally committed. Our tickets were quite a bit more than originally budgeted for, but I hope to pick up an extra hour here and there at work before we fly. We...