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So did you bring us back anything?
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well, we were gonna ship back some wine and champagne (and use it for the 1st Jetcareers Las Vegas Meet)... but the shipping costs seemed really high out there since it took 0,90 euros (about a dollar) to just mail a postcard!! but i did take a ton of photos (even sky/airport/airplane shots)... I should have the trip report/photos up this weekend if all goes well...
so - we figured we'd just try some wines when we got back here... but i got so used to having an aperitif before dinner, that now i have to figure out how to make myself a Kir when i get home from work! hahaha
any idea on how to do that Fr8dog???
We really did enjoy your country! we're hoping next time we go back, we'd make some parisian friends who would actually want to hang out with us while we continue to butcher the language!! I have to admit though, that I did pretty darn well considering I did not know anything except bonjour and merci when i got on the plane! We decided to leave the Louve, Luxembourg Jardin, Notre Dame and a day trip out to burgundy country & brussels/bruges for our next trip....
a couple of interesting aspects - there is no "take out" coffee... you drink it then and there and don't expect it to be quick (even in the mornings!)... other thing is that the fountain show at versailles was incredible because they play the baroque/classical music while hte fountains are in motion and you can kind of "see" how it was back in the day... only thing is that it would be much more elaborate and interesting if the staff were in mock dress-up for the effect of the event and instead of there being 1300 fountains, there are only 400 now of which, i dont recall seeing 400 of them... the only bad thing is that when we got there at 3-4pm on sunday, the fountains weren't even on and at 4pm, they turned on and only stayed on for about an hour and a half.... with that short amount of time, you couldn't even see all of the fountains running...that was kind a sad!! oh - and cobbelstone is kinda difficult to ride on with a bike! with the long walks between everything, we decided to ride from the grand canal to the king's summer house etc... our feet were JUST killing, that place is just soooo enormous!!
oh - and the girls over there do not have shorts... they wear either skirts, pants or jeans and it doesn't matter what you wear with the skirt whether tennis shoes, flip flops or spagetti strap shirts... i dunno why they don't sell shorts over there -they should!!... being from arizona, you'd think 70/80 degree weather would be nice and cool to us, but dang... it was HOT... a bit of humidty, some high heat, no air conditioning anywhere (incl. the trains) and boy, your putting deoterant on twice a day!! lucky for us, i think more and more french folk ARE wearing deoterant now a days!!
So did you bring us back anything?
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well, we were gonna ship back some wine and champagne (and use it for the 1st Jetcareers Las Vegas Meet)... but the shipping costs seemed really high out there since it took 0,90 euros (about a dollar) to just mail a postcard!! but i did take a ton of photos (even sky/airport/airplane shots)... I should have the trip report/photos up this weekend if all goes well...
so - we figured we'd just try some wines when we got back here... but i got so used to having an aperitif before dinner, that now i have to figure out how to make myself a Kir when i get home from work! hahaha
any idea on how to do that Fr8dog???
We really did enjoy your country! we're hoping next time we go back, we'd make some parisian friends who would actually want to hang out with us while we continue to butcher the language!! I have to admit though, that I did pretty darn well considering I did not know anything except bonjour and merci when i got on the plane! We decided to leave the Louve, Luxembourg Jardin, Notre Dame and a day trip out to burgundy country & brussels/bruges for our next trip....
a couple of interesting aspects - there is no "take out" coffee... you drink it then and there and don't expect it to be quick (even in the mornings!)... other thing is that the fountain show at versailles was incredible because they play the baroque/classical music while hte fountains are in motion and you can kind of "see" how it was back in the day... only thing is that it would be much more elaborate and interesting if the staff were in mock dress-up for the effect of the event and instead of there being 1300 fountains, there are only 400 now of which, i dont recall seeing 400 of them... the only bad thing is that when we got there at 3-4pm on sunday, the fountains weren't even on and at 4pm, they turned on and only stayed on for about an hour and a half.... with that short amount of time, you couldn't even see all of the fountains running...that was kind a sad!! oh - and cobbelstone is kinda difficult to ride on with a bike! with the long walks between everything, we decided to ride from the grand canal to the king's summer house etc... our feet were JUST killing, that place is just soooo enormous!!
oh - and the girls over there do not have shorts... they wear either skirts, pants or jeans and it doesn't matter what you wear with the skirt whether tennis shoes, flip flops or spagetti strap shirts... i dunno why they don't sell shorts over there -they should!!... being from arizona, you'd think 70/80 degree weather would be nice and cool to us, but dang... it was HOT... a bit of humidty, some high heat, no air conditioning anywhere (incl. the trains) and boy, your putting deoterant on twice a day!! lucky for us, i think more and more french folk ARE wearing deoterant now a days!!