Thanksgiving in Paris!
first off, HI, GRANDMA!!! Hope you are feeling better! Get well SOON!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
After the amazing Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, Christine C. and I went to Paris on Saturday, originally to have Thanksgiving dinner with her friend from college, Caitlyn (who is an English assistant there) and a bunch of other people (mainly assistants) who are living in Paris, to go to Christmas marchés, go ice skating, and to go to some clubs with our friends from our town who are from Paris or just outside of it.
We ended up not going ice skating or out on the town due to being tired, but we hit up two marchés and went to Thanksgiving dinner at Caitlyn's boyfriend's family's apartment(Thanks, Bruno!!).
Christine and I got into town at around 12 or so, took the metro, and met up with Caitlyn.
Here is a giant ferris wheel at Place de Concorde.
This is the marché de noël at the Arc de Triomphe (a bunch of pretty well reinforced stands lined both sides of the street).
An ad for an upcoming circus performance...
And a scary, gigantic clown head to really get the point across!
A carousel...
The street...
L'Arc de Triomphe off in the distance!
Christmas wine!
Sarkozy...
Romantic comedy of the season, yes?!?!
It started getting dark while Christine and I were making our way to the metro to go to the dinner to celebrate Thanksgiving!
I am quite the artistic photographer...
This is an unbelievable and absolutely ridiculous poster plastered throughout the metro...
Politically incorrect comedy of the season, yes?!?!
She is white. She is racist. She is going to become black.
Here are some more decorations!
Setting the table!
The wine!
The FOOD!!!
Macaroni!
Sweet potatoes (on the left--THEY WERE DELICIOUS) and fancy stuffing (on the right)
The raspberry tarte that Christine and I brought from Lille to home to Paris over the course of three days...
Homemade apple pie that Caitlyn made and that I ate the next day!
Julia, Bex, Christine and I!
Green beans!
Some of the people sitting 'round the dinner table!
I had a crazy coughing fit, which is why i have a cup of water and a napkin in my hands, and had just come back form the bathroom, because I needed to excuse myself...
Playing wii! (i think this happened moreso before we ate...)
Here is the apartment we stayed in!!! (This is an AMAZING apartment!!! someone quite artistic used to live in it before Caitlyn and Lindsay...
falling in love
View outside of Caitlyn's window!
homemade border...
kitchen...
The bathroom's border:
Caitlyn's room...
Sunday breakfast!!! (Deliciously hearty bread Christine and I managed to find at our local supermarket.)
Stairwell...
Out and about before going to the larger marché at La Défense
FANCY chandelier exterior holiday lights
The FIRST Starbucks in Paris...It is VERY extravagant...so extravagant, it feels sorta surreal. I got a Chai Tea Latte...I miss being able to get coffee and other drinks on the go...
Do you see the chandelier?
The ceilings...
Metro moving walkway...
Advertisement with half baby/ half man...
Basically, We believe in the potential of each child...
Christine and our lovely host, Caitlyn!
La Défense!
The marché!
Christine bought a really nice christmas ornament from here...
One of the sit-down restaurants at the marché...you actually get served your food at your table...
Lunch somewhere else...
Spying on the lights...
Walking back to the train station from Caitlyn's...
And that was that!!!
After the amazing Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, Christine C. and I went to Paris on Saturday, originally to have Thanksgiving dinner with her friend from college, Caitlyn (who is an English assistant there) and a bunch of other people (mainly assistants) who are living in Paris, to go to Christmas marchés, go ice skating, and to go to some clubs with our friends from our town who are from Paris or just outside of it.
We ended up not going ice skating or out on the town due to being tired, but we hit up two marchés and went to Thanksgiving dinner at Caitlyn's boyfriend's family's apartment(Thanks, Bruno!!).
Christine and I got into town at around 12 or so, took the metro, and met up with Caitlyn.
Here is a giant ferris wheel at Place de Concorde.
This is the marché de noël at the Arc de Triomphe (a bunch of pretty well reinforced stands lined both sides of the street).
An ad for an upcoming circus performance...
And a scary, gigantic clown head to really get the point across!
A carousel...
The street...
L'Arc de Triomphe off in the distance!
Christmas wine!
Sarkozy...
Romantic comedy of the season, yes?!?!
It started getting dark while Christine and I were making our way to the metro to go to the dinner to celebrate Thanksgiving!
I am quite the artistic photographer...
This is an unbelievable and absolutely ridiculous poster plastered throughout the metro...
Politically incorrect comedy of the season, yes?!?!
She is white. She is racist. She is going to become black.
Here are some more decorations!
Setting the table!
The wine!
The FOOD!!!
Macaroni!
Sweet potatoes (on the left--THEY WERE DELICIOUS) and fancy stuffing (on the right)
The raspberry tarte that Christine and I brought from Lille to home to Paris over the course of three days...
Homemade apple pie that Caitlyn made and that I ate the next day!
Julia, Bex, Christine and I!
Green beans!
Some of the people sitting 'round the dinner table!
I had a crazy coughing fit, which is why i have a cup of water and a napkin in my hands, and had just come back form the bathroom, because I needed to excuse myself...
Playing wii! (i think this happened moreso before we ate...)
Here is the apartment we stayed in!!! (This is an AMAZING apartment!!! someone quite artistic used to live in it before Caitlyn and Lindsay...
falling in love
View outside of Caitlyn's window!
homemade border...
kitchen...
The bathroom's border:
Caitlyn's room...
Sunday breakfast!!! (Deliciously hearty bread Christine and I managed to find at our local supermarket.)
Stairwell...
Out and about before going to the larger marché at La Défense
FANCY chandelier exterior holiday lights
The FIRST Starbucks in Paris...It is VERY extravagant...so extravagant, it feels sorta surreal. I got a Chai Tea Latte...I miss being able to get coffee and other drinks on the go...
Do you see the chandelier?
The ceilings...
Metro moving walkway...
Advertisement with half baby/ half man...
Basically, We believe in the potential of each child...
Christine and our lovely host, Caitlyn!
La Défense!
The marché!
Christine bought a really nice christmas ornament from here...
One of the sit-down restaurants at the marché...you actually get served your food at your table...
Lunch somewhere else...
Spying on the lights...
Walking back to the train station from Caitlyn's...
And that was that!!!