Saturday May 8, 2010

Natali finished her first week at the OECD and was REALLY ready for the weekend to come. Well on Saturday we had a nice little trip to Paris. Pictures really are way better than words so I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.

We woke up in the morning and went to a bakery in Evreux and just got what looked good. In France food is al about presentation so it all looked good. They even put the baked goods in a cute little box with a ribbon around it... anyway we decided on a strawberry eclair, a chocolate eclair, and a pain au chocolat. MMMMMM!! So good.

Then we went to Paris. I was able to drive there which might sound easy but for anyone who has been to Paris and driven there it is crazy. The trip there wasn't bad but in Paris is a whole different world. So many times I was thinking, "Where are the lines?" but you just go and watch out for other cars. And don't get me started on most of the round-abouts... well we lived and that was great. We parked and walked around a litle bit and took some pictures of some of the sites.


Some building, looked cool, took a picture. Below it is me with Clemence trying to give me bunny ears.

Then Thomas, Clemence, Natali and I walked around Paris for a while before Clemence had to go to Dance class.

While walking we found an old man with an umbrella and a cat playing music on the street. Pretty interesting, enough to take a picture AND put it on our blog.

After dropping off Clemence we walked up a huge set of stairs to the Sacre Coeur. Natali says it is one of the most famous Cathedrals in Paris... and she is usually right so I'll believe her. It was huge and in front there were a bunch of people just singing in front of it for the tourists.Lots of people were sitting below it jsut enjoying the nicer weather. Notice I say nicer because it has been really chilly since we have been here. We were hoping to get out of the cold but it followed us. Saturday was a nicer day luckily.

Then we went and saw the little tourist stands. Lots of paintings and drawings and a bunch of other stuff you can buy if you have a lot of money. We didn't buy anything :( Natali liked these bright paintings the best. They were pretty cool with all of the bright colors.
We saw some very pretty places including this little restaurant outside under some vines with purple flowers on them.
Another nice little place on the side of the street. Natali loves this kind of stuff. She was just beaming the whole day. It was exactly what she needed on her day off.Here we are overlooking the city of Paris. The Eiffel Tower was out of view and we weren't able to see it on Saturday but some other day we will go and take pics so look forward to that!

And Just how the day started with food it ended with food. The branch that we go to had a branch crepe party. The church is in a town called Mantes la Jolie that is about 30 minutes away from Evreux on the way to Paris. So Thomas dropped us off on the way back home and the after we took the train home. The branch is small but really nice. There were lots of good crepes, my favorite is definately the Nutella though ;)