Anniversary
Dan and I have been married for 1 year and 3 days (give or take with the time differences). We celebrated our first anniversary on Sunday, June 24, and it was wonderful! Dan made us excellent breakfast sandwiches in bed (an homage to a staple meal of our first married year). They were great with all the fresh French ingredients! Then we went to and English-speaking church, which was fun, and Ocean's 13 in "version originale," which means it was in English with French subtitles. It was a sublimely English morning and afternoon. We enjoyed ice cream at Berthillon, the most famous ice cream place in Paris (I think they invented the ice cream cone there). It was delish.
For dinner, we went to Bofinger, the first brasserie in Paris (that's a popular type of restuarant). Here's a view of the dining room from the 2nd floor, where we ate:
I had escargo and bouilabaisse, which were incredible.
Dan enjoyed choucrutte, an specialty of the Alsace region made of saurkraut and assorted meats/sausages. He loved it. In case you haven't noticed, from this picture, French portions are NOT smaller as people say they are. They are often huge, in our experience.
We went from there to see the lit up Eiffel Tower (WAY better than the tower in the daylight!) We even got to see it in a kinda light-show style, where they make it go crazy on the hour. It was awesome, and a great way to begin our second year of marriage!
Versailles
We went to Versailles yesterday with 2 of the other people (kids, actually) from Dan's class. One, Voytek, is from Poland and is only 16 years old. The other, Lars, is from Germany and is 19. We've kinda been hanging out with them because we almost feel like they need some people to help them along so they won't be lonely. They've been fun, though, plus they both speak English!
The Versailles (prounounced "verse-eye", hence my title joke) Chateau (where French royalty, most famously Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, lived) was great, but the best part of the tour was the massive gardens. The grounds are bigger than the actual town of Versailles. Some highlight pictures for you:
Lars, Dan, and Voytek at the edge of a fountain (near the area constructed to replicate farmland for Marie Antoinette)
A side garden with awesome manicured fleur-de-lye that we loved
The view down the grand canal from the chateau (the side gardens weren't nearly as crowded)
The orangerie, where they store the many orange trees in the winter (the orange blossoms smelled AMAZING)
A soon-to-be-famous sculpture imitation by Dan
The view down the grand canal from the chateau (the side gardens weren't nearly as crowded)
The orangerie, where they store the many orange trees in the winter (the orange blossoms smelled AMAZING)
A soon-to-be-famous sculpture imitation by Dan
Hope you enjoyed your mini-tour. Love you, miss you, leave comments! (Can you tell Dan and I are desparate for comments?)
10 comments:
Hi guys,
1- glad the statue immitation wasn't also nude.
2- Loved the play on Anni-Versailles-ary.
3- Happy you're making friends from Poland and Germany!
4- Really, really, wish I was their to see all of the very cool stuff with you!
5- Meg, way to go trying the escargo! Aren't they yummy? I've only had them once, but they were memorable.
Love you lots, Mom
Read your tour and saw the great pictures. Sounds like you are having a great time there and involved in all the French places. Dad is working on Ruth's computer and made a great presentation at our church last night about the Endowments etc. We are taking mom and dad back to the airport this afternoon in Dayton. Love you guys and keep those posts coming.
Love Grandpa
Happy Anni-Versailles-ry (clever)to two of my very favorite people. Great pictures - beautiful bride, handsome husband.
The pictures were awesome - the two of you and the tower, in that order of favorites.
Take care of each other. Love you both, Grandma
hey i miss you guys and I'M CALLING YOU TODAY! get excited :-)
i am so proud. :)
Not only did you go to Versailles (And visit the side gardens), but you visited the eiffel at night on the hour AND got Berthillon ice cream. isn't it amazing? Did you go to the one on the ile-saint-louis or did you get that particular type elsewhere? I've heard that Bofinger is amazing and we attempted to go there once, but it was closed (for some reason). So glad that you enjoyed it! keep the updates coming, I'm loving my morning-at-work check-ins. :)
you guys look like you're having so much fun! glad to hear you got there safely, meghan.
have you been to the beautiful La Defense yet? ha... don't, it's ugly... keep up the updates!! :)
From France to Dayton? So Meg... you have family here in my town? You and Danno better come visit when you return from your adventure! Prayers, brian
Hi Friends!
Happy aniversaillery? It sounds like you guys are having a blast! I love all of the pictures!(Although selfishly I can't wait till you are here with me in texas :) ) Love you!
Megan
Sad to say, Brian, my parents were only in town for a workcamp. Not "only," you know what I'm saying.
Megan-sure you can't wait for me to be in Texas? I'll be mighty jet-lagged. Who am I kidding, I can't wait either!
that is all amazing. so cool. and i am in love with the eiffel tower at night. we might have to camp out there. all night. every night.
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