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A little road trip, wait, make that un petit voyage!
Today we ventured outside of Paris to Katie’s number one request: Giverny (and is this not the cutest, quaintest website ever or what?!?). This was extra neat as neither Chuck nor I had ever been there. Our new BFF Stephane, our personal concierge (who we get to meet face to face tomorrow), arranged the whole…
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Day of the (mostly) dead
As the title implies today we went places that were full of mostly dead stuff, other than the tourists. And the weather took a turn for the colder with highs in the mid 50’s. Brr! We started the day at Pere Lachaise Cemetery (and yes, there’s an app for it – in fact there are two.…
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One foot in front of the other
Here it is, day three of Katie’s Semi-Grand Tour. Today we took on the Louvre (ooh, ahh!) and the Galeries Lafayette and Montmarte, Sacre Coeur and the red light district (should one capitalize “red light district?” one thinks not). It was a lot of ground to cover, but by gum we did it! And we…
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Que la force soit avec toi!
For our second day in Paris, after a good night’s sleep, we decided to take on Disneyland Paris (formerly known as Euro Disney), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. This was Katie’s choice. We were all, “Sniff, Disneyland Paris, Pshaw!” We too the metro to the RER then headed to the end of…
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Nous sommes arrivee! And our luggage is here, too!
After our whirlwind weekend in Pittsburgh, then one busy day working it was on the road again – well, really in the skies again. We flew to Paris yesterday (was it really only yesterday?) and hit the ground running (in a sleepy completely jet-lagged sort of way), trying to stay awake as long as possible…
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I love it when a surprise works!
Our good time overload continued this past weekend when we made a semi-secret trip to Pittsburgh, PA to attend a surprise party for my brother-in-law Tony, who is turning 70. My brother and sister-in-law came, both of my nephews (my sister & brother-in-law’s kids, that is) and their families, Tony’s two older brothers, as well…
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