Torie: "You're drinking wine?"
Erik: "What? I'm eating lunch!"
And you wonder why we don't want to leave!
(honestly, I think I'm more offended that he didn't offer me a glass. Perhaps it's because I've been correcting his English. 'Boughten' isn't actually a word, is it? And would anyone care to share some correct uses of the word 'propose'? We throw it around here all the time, mostly as a joke, because it's one of those words that I don't think is used the same way in both languages. The French like to think it is, though)
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Picture time!
I've uploaded some pictures from my recent trip with Katie and Jen. You can check them out here.
On other travel related news, we've finally booked our tickets to come home in June. We're arriving in Toronto on June 15th, and I'm heading directly to Ottawa where I'll be until the 18th. We'll be in Toronto until June 26th, and we can't wait to see everyone (and eat fajitas, and have good sushi...). If there's anything you need from Paris, get your orders in now!
On other travel related news, we've finally booked our tickets to come home in June. We're arriving in Toronto on June 15th, and I'm heading directly to Ottawa where I'll be until the 18th. We'll be in Toronto until June 26th, and we can't wait to see everyone (and eat fajitas, and have good sushi...). If there's anything you need from Paris, get your orders in now!
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Birthday on the Orient Express
Yesterday was my birthday, and also the day that I had to say goodbye to Katie and Jen and head back to the (other) good life in Paris.
We had quite the train adventure getting from Cesky Krumlov, although most of the excitement was contained on the first train which not only had a broken horn, that blew for the entire two hour trip, but stopped for no apparent reason in the middle of nowhere, and we couldn't get the doors open. Luckily the Czechs are good at fixing broken trains, and about holding trains for you when you're late making your connections, and we arrived in Linz with enough time for Katie and Jen to catch their last train on to Salzburg, and for me to be thoroughly bored for six hours before hopping on my overnight Orient Express train home. No real excitement on the overnight train, aside from its name and the fact that I got free breakfast.
I rolled safely into Gare de l'Est at 10:30 this morning, and Erik was waiting for me, and as always, I was happy to be home. We spent the morning doing some of my favorite Parisian things like shopping at the organic market (which we should do more often), eating crepes and gelato and having lunch at the Marquise. Now Erik's making gigot d'agneau, and we're trying to decide how to best take advantage of the fantastic weather that we have.
That's all I've got for today. There's so much to say about my trip, and lots of photos to organize, so stay tuned...
We had quite the train adventure getting from Cesky Krumlov, although most of the excitement was contained on the first train which not only had a broken horn, that blew for the entire two hour trip, but stopped for no apparent reason in the middle of nowhere, and we couldn't get the doors open. Luckily the Czechs are good at fixing broken trains, and about holding trains for you when you're late making your connections, and we arrived in Linz with enough time for Katie and Jen to catch their last train on to Salzburg, and for me to be thoroughly bored for six hours before hopping on my overnight Orient Express train home. No real excitement on the overnight train, aside from its name and the fact that I got free breakfast.
I rolled safely into Gare de l'Est at 10:30 this morning, and Erik was waiting for me, and as always, I was happy to be home. We spent the morning doing some of my favorite Parisian things like shopping at the organic market (which we should do more often), eating crepes and gelato and having lunch at the Marquise. Now Erik's making gigot d'agneau, and we're trying to decide how to best take advantage of the fantastic weather that we have.
That's all I've got for today. There's so much to say about my trip, and lots of photos to organize, so stay tuned...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
A-Hoy from Prague
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I'm in Prague, and doing well. I flew into Berlin on Saturday morning, and had no problem getting into the city to meet up with Katie and Jen. Berlin was a beautiful city, and we did all the touristy things, including an amazing walking tour. So much history, I feel like we only scratched the surface, and am already itching to go back. Surprisingly, compared to my last trip to Germany where I ate more sausages than I can handle, the only German food I ate this time was pretzels. There just didn't seem to be any around!
Yesterday we caught the train to Prague, and lucked out finding a compartment all to ourselves. The scenery was amazing, and the city itself is breathtaking. We had a nice dinner in the old town square last night, and got up early this morning to see the sun rise on the Charles Street Bridge. Today is Jen's birthday, so there is lots more celebrating and touristing to be done, but leave me a comment, or send me an email when you get the chance.
Hope everyone is doing well,
Torie :)
Yesterday we caught the train to Prague, and lucked out finding a compartment all to ourselves. The scenery was amazing, and the city itself is breathtaking. We had a nice dinner in the old town square last night, and got up early this morning to see the sun rise on the Charles Street Bridge. Today is Jen's birthday, so there is lots more celebrating and touristing to be done, but leave me a comment, or send me an email when you get the chance.
Hope everyone is doing well,
Torie :)
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Birthday Boules Bonanza
On Saturday we celebrated Erik's birthday. On the agenda was a rousing game of petanque followed by some beer and poutine at the Quebec bar.
Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate, and turned our boules court into a muddy mess. Plan B of heading directly to the Quebec bar was foiled by the fact that the Quebec bar wasn't open yet. Luckily we there was an Irish bar willing to take us in, where we warmed up before moving on to the home favorite. It did eventually stop raining, but by the time it had the parks were all closed. So we set up shop in a square and threw the balls into a fenced off treed area. A good time was had by all, and I'm sad to say that I think the French team won. But who's really keeping score?
At the Irish bar
Some action shots
Collecting the boules
Alex (2) prepares some drinks
Erik enjoys some Pastis, a traditional southern French drink
The 'French' team
The 'Canadian' team
Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate, and turned our boules court into a muddy mess. Plan B of heading directly to the Quebec bar was foiled by the fact that the Quebec bar wasn't open yet. Luckily we there was an Irish bar willing to take us in, where we warmed up before moving on to the home favorite. It did eventually stop raining, but by the time it had the parks were all closed. So we set up shop in a square and threw the balls into a fenced off treed area. A good time was had by all, and I'm sad to say that I think the French team won. But who's really keeping score?
At the Irish bar
Some action shots
Collecting the boules
Alex (2) prepares some drinks
Erik enjoys some Pastis, a traditional southern French drink
The 'French' team
The 'Canadian' team
April Fools!
We saw this woman walking around Montmartre yesterday. April Fools day in France is called 'Poisson d'avril' and is celebrated by sticking paper fish to the backs of the people that have been fooled (the 'poisson' d'avril).
Interestingly, Wikipedia claims that the French were the likely creators of this day. You can read the whole entry here, and is related to the change from the Gregorian calendar to the Julian one. Who knew!
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