Picture Link

Eric put some pictures up on Shutterfly if you want to take a look at them. It's a variety of pictures from our trip. Hope you like them.

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Home Sweet Home

We are home! Yippie! Now I have more time to write. No time limits on the computer at the internet cafe. 

I can't believe we are home already. We had such a great trip and now we are home recuperating from traveling and jet lag. It's been a rough one that's for sure.We were up for about 21 hours. Starting at 7:00 am on Sunday. We couldn't make it past 8:30 last night. We had to go to bed. I was dragging, Eric was too. Before we went to bed we went to Whitey's for dinner. I was trying not to close my eyes for too long. It was a battle but we made it through. I ended up sleeping for 13 hours! Yes, 13 hours. Eric got up at 3:00 am and stayed up for a couple of hours and then returned to bed. It felt great to sleep for a long time. It sure doesn't feel like 3:00 in the afternoon on Memorial day. I've managed to get unpacked and do 3 loads of laundry for the day. I haven't even gotten out of my pj's. Maybe I'll feel better if I get myself dressed. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe not....

Our trip was so amazing. We had a great time. We had our ups and downs like anyone else would. The biggest struggle to the whole trip was the language barrier. If you go overseas you must know how to speak the language. At least a little bit. Try to communicate in their language. At the end we had some sentences down but not much. 

We ate so much and thought for sure we put on weight. But we weighed ourselves Eric lost a few pounds and I managed to say the same. I'm glad in that. We thought for sure we weigh more after eating all those crepes. mmmm.....crepes. They rocked. Love 'em. The bread was fabulous too. So many baguettes and croissants to choose from. They were all delicious and after awhile we could tell which ones were better than others. Eric said we were becoming experts in French cuisine. ( : 

In the end we had a fabulous time. We can't complain. I hope everyone enjoyed reading the blog. I'm not sure when I'll write again but check back you never know what we will be up to next. Now here we go back to the everyday norm. 

Chat later.

Some More Pics from Giverney

What an End to an Amazing Trip

It's Saturday and it's our last day here in France. To end it we took a trip out to a town called Giverney. It's where Monet got his inspiration for his water lilly paintings. We had to first take the Metro to the train station. From there we had to transfer to a bus to take us up to the place. It's a small little town that really shows the true look of France. It was beautiful. When we got into the estate of Monet all you could see were gardens and gardens of flowers. It was so magnificent. We went and toured his house as well which was pretty amazing. We didn't want to leave. When we were there you could go down by the water where the water lillies and asian inspired bridge was. It was like we were looking at his paintings. A truely beautiful site. This is what makes France beautiful.

So, to end this series of blogs. We had a wonderful trip to France. It was pretty rough in the beginning but in the end it was unbelievable. I hope everyone enjoyed looking at the blog. It was fun to let everyone know where we were ate in our journey and seeing all the comments. We will be home tomorrow trying to get back to normal.

We hope you have enjoyed all the pictures and to end it we put some more of our day to Monet's garden.

Talk to tomorrow.

Love,
Alisha and Eric

Our Trip to Versailles

Well here's to another day. It's about 4:00 for us and we just got back from Versailles. Nope, the trains weren't on strike. Yeah! This town is outside of Paris and has the largest Chateau (castle) in France. Well it's. true. The train got into town and hordes of people got off. I couldn't believe the amount of people heading to the castle. It was like we were at the state fair trying to get around people and standing in line forever. This place was gigantic. It was a little overwhelming and then on top of it too crowded. So, we hurried through the rooms of the place and wanted to get outside. Once we got there it was beautiful. The gardens were so immaculate. We wandered around and saw lots of fountains and paths that could lead you to so many secret hiding places. We were there for about 4 hours. Now we are in Paris and had yet another crepe. They are so delicious! We think we have found the best stand that sells them in Paris. We've been there twice. ( : There are so many desserts we want to try but so few meals.

The weather has been pretty good for us so far. We've had a couple of days with rain but it's gotten a lot better. It's about 75 degrees out right now. This is probably the hottest day yet. On our last day we are going to head up to Giverny. It's a little day trip outside of Paris.

Well I guess we are off. Hope everyone is doing well.
See ya in a couple of days.

At a Stand Still......Trains on Strike!

Ok, here we are in Paris. I can't complain what so ever. But our plans were to go to Versailles today. We tried to get tickets at they wouldn't sell them to us at one train station. Since the language barrier is so difficult I thought they were being very difficult. So, we decided we would try to go Giverney instead. So we walked to a different train station and saw all kinds of security and managers around the train station. We found out the trains were ON STRIKE! So, we are stuck. We can't really go anywhere. (Well we could but we didn't research anywhere else.) So, we decided to spend our day in Paris just bumming around. We managed to kill a day that's for sure. We hung outside of the Opera house, went to the Petite Palace. This place was free to get in but man do they bug you to buy and audio guide and to check our bags. We didn't even need to do either at the Louvre. So, we were a little annoyed and we left. From there we walked around, shopped a bit and decided to take a rest back at the apartment. Since then we managed to go have lunch late and we at at McDonalds. Eric heard it's suppose to be better over here. You know what IT WAS! I don't know if it's because we are away from home or what but the Big Mac ROCKED! So did the fries and even the coke with no ice.

I guess that's all. Not much else to say. Tomorrow we should (hopefully) be off to Versailles. Cross your fingers and hope there's no strike tomorrow.

See ya!

Relaxing somewhat in Paris

Today we made a trip up to Jim Morrison's grave. This was a little creepy but a lot of people were going there to see it too. We managed to transfer subways in order to arrive there in a half hour. If we would have walked it would have taken probably an hour and a half.



This next one is for you Mom. We went to the opera house that the Phantom of the Opera is based off of. This place was incredible! You would have loved it. We were able to see the front part of the building and almost missed the opportunity to see the auditorium. We got in though. They were having rehearsals earlier. This place was truely beautiful. We were in awe.









We have gotten use to the people here. Well some of them. The guy at this coffee house didn't speak English but was very helpful in trying to figure out what we needed. We managed to pull through with our cheat sheet language book.



Well We've got to go. Our time is running up on the internet credit. Hope everyone is doing well. We are off to Versailles tomorrow.