1 sketchy host
8 sweet hosts
9 countries
6 curriencies
1 creepy hostel
1 welcoming hostel
1 super small hotel room
1 room in a apt. building-not a hotel but not a hostel- it is called a pension
12 games of phase 10- I, Ashley, am in the lead
3 duck dinners
and multiple packs of these delicious chocolate cookies
So for all of you Rugby fans out there, the World Cup is here in France and is going on right now. So our first host in Paris( we stayed with two hosts in paris) invited us to stay a day longer to watch France vs: England in the Semi-finals. This is a huge game because france and england beat new zealand and austrailia to get to the semi finals which were huge upsets. So we lugged all of our belongs back over to Gilles house-the guy who cooked us duck- but little did we know that Gilles was a bit confused and there wasnt even a game that night....we laughed alot about this. So instead of watching the Rugby we played this board game called Spices from Around the World. It was hilaroius. It was a game of trade, but you actually had to smell different spices and try to figure out what they were. We decided this might be better than Rugby.
We are leaving Paris today and are heading for Portugal. This is going to be a long train ride about 20 hours.....I am not looking forward to it, but I will get alot of reading done and joe and I can play multipe games of Phase 10.
Here are a few pictures to enjoy.
1. The is at the Palace of Versailles in the Gardens. This is where Marie Antoniette lived with Louis the XVI, if you have seen the movie I beleive the Garden scenes were filmed here. The Gardens may be my favorite sight yet.
2. Our second host family, they also had a 9 month old baby-Joseph- but he was in bed. We think they could have walked right out of a JCrew magazine.
3. We had pizza with them one night and it had an egg on top so we had to take a picture to show all of you.
4. And here is our final night in France plying a Spice Game and not watching Rugby.
That egg looks disgusting. I would only have eaten the crust. Ashley how are you surviving with the food? Is it better than tofu tacos? We were just trying to prepare you for Europe.
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That pizza did look disgusting, but an experience none the less. I am glad to hear that things are going well and Ash is in the lead for phase 10....that a girl! I can't believe you are in paris...and that you have officially been gone a month. I think about you both often....Trinity is growing leaps and bounds. Clint is painting the nursery as I am typing...we finally decided on colors. :-) The walls are a light green and then we'll accent it in pink. I bought a new camera last weekend, so I'll email some pics.
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Hey guys! There's something about the egg on the pizza that I wouldn't mind. I know, I know. I am SO euro.
ReplyDeleteWe're here in our lovenest, just took a walk from reagan airport almost to the memorial bridge. It is a beautiful evening - just yesterday it started to feel like fall. It is very nice, and so crisp.
We saw Andy & Lexie last weekend for a bit, and they gave us the toaster from the 4 of y'all. Thank you for being so thoughtful and generous (again!!). Thank you for being such wonderful, incredible, kind friends. You are really missed around here, but we are so glad you are having these fabulous adventures together.
All the best from NoVa.
- ginger and craig
Did the pizza with the egg have tuna on it, too? I think I remember that from my France travels. Or maybe I'm just imagining that because I need protein or something.
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