This was one of the first things I saw in our neighborhood and I said to the family, "awesome we have a bread store at the end of our block!" Arch just shook his head and said, "that's not a bread store, it's the bread of life - a church." Yesterday the doorbell rang and Lucy and I thought who could be coming to our door? So we answered it and guess who it was? The Jehovah's witnesses. Two women started rambling on in French and we let them go for a good few mi...

Here is a happier blog than yesterday. I found these boots at a vintage store in Paris and they are just my size. Being from Colorado, I decided long ago to collect cowboy boots. I have lots of boots, but this is my first pair from Paris so I thought that was pretty cool. And, they were only 45 euro (about 60 dollars). Well Lucy and I ventured in to the post office today and got our stamps. Then we proceeded to the grocery store to get a few days worth of food....

We have had wonderful weather the whole trip, but when we woke up this morning it was gray and misty. Very fitting because today we split from our boys from the rest of the trip. I am having a very hard time with it, much harder than I expected. When I was planning this whole trip I knew that I would miss the boys, but I did not know it would feel like this. For the past 3 days we would keep really busy during the days walking through Paris, seeing the sights, et...

We were walking in the Latin Quarter and David found this hat at an outdoor shop. He stopped and put it on and said, "hey mom what do you think about this hat?" When I turned around I just broke in to a smile. This is coming from the kid that wouldn't keep a hat on when he was little, ever. So I said, "I think it looks great." He said, "Well I think my friends at home might make fun of me, but it looks like what the guys where here, so I think I'll get it." We we...

With all the excitement of travel always comes the stress! Yesterday we took the train to Paris from Loches, France. We got lost finding the train station, then the 4:20 train that was on the website was no such thing. The next train was sold out, so we waited 2 1/2 hours for the train. When we finally got off in Paris we found our metro stop and walked what seemed to be miles down into the metro and back out again. This is where true personalities come out. Oh a...