No, we don't actually ever get snow days in Paris, so the Parisiens have come up with their own excuse to not work from time to time. It's called a transportation strike! And it's going on today! So I'm home from school...tried to find an open library to do some work, but with no transportation other than my feet and a bike (which are really hard to find today...everyone is on Paris's rent-a-bike system!), I wasted 2 hours, only to find signs on EVERY library. "Pérterbations à cause de la grève." Expect to be perterbed. Well, I'm not perterbed. I'm just enjoying the day!
And now I can take a m
oment to catch up on internet business. I've fallen behind on all forms of communication since sta
rting my courses last week. It's going to be like that from here on out, I think.So...the Cousins Gentine were here a few weeks ago! Kristin, Nicci, Shelly, and Leah...girls time in France...husbands and kids at home...and it was really just so enjoyable. We walked and walked wherever we felt like going, stopped for lunch, for shopping, for photos, sometimes in front of monuments that I couldn't explain...ate amazing dinners and even had a Gentine family dinner! Boris Gentine and his wife, Anne Caroline and her husband...and us. Bringing the French branches together with
those of the American side. Really really cool. Morning croissants and scarf hunting and shoe hunting and "not eating dessert"...and a fabulous final dinner overlooking the city of lights. It was really special. I am so thankful that they were able
to come...thankful to their husbands for making it possible!...and happy that I had the opportunity to share my life here with my family.
4 comments:
Hello Amanda,
I had to check out your blog today to see if you had put any news posts on. It's been awhile since I last looked. My sister and I were scrapbooking with Shelly today and she told us all about her adventures with you. It sounds like all of the cousins had a wonderful time.
Good luck with school...I'm back at school as well and it's not as easy as I thought it would be with 2 little ones at home. But...I will be eligible for my principal and pupil services licenses after I am done. So guess it will be worth it.
Take care and I look forward to you upcoming "blogs" whenever you get a chance.
Jen (Kraus) Kiekhoefer
G.,
Thank you so much for such a wonderful, incredible, full-of-laughs, fun time in Paris! It was so awesome to stay with you in your neighborhood, which I absolutely loved. All of the experiences and memories are great...even the ones of being SO American in our "track suits" in and amongst the Parisians in their black and gray clothing with a scarf artfully wrapped around their necks!
Yes, I still laugh to myself when I think about the "fall" in the train station...if only you could have seen it! Hee, hee!
Thanks SO much!!
Love,
Shel
I am laughing so hard right now thinking about "the fall". I can't believe you didn't write about it on your blog.
It was so wonderful in Paris with you. I love looking back at all the phots of everything we did, including the VERY, VERY high ferris wheel!!
Nicci
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