Other Parisian Highlights

These are obligatory, right?

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Jayne may or may not have called them "biscuits"

When people rave about French food, they are justified. Even simple things like crepes and paninis are amazing.

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(Especially when your daughter/granddaughter/mom has kept you traipsing around the hot, hot city all day.)

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Jayne almost gobbled mine down in the time it take to smile for this picture!

So Grandma thought she should have a nice desert, too. The doting waiter helped choose some lovely little merengue cookies.

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Oui, oui, we liked them, too.

Eiffel Tower

When your four-person tour group is comprised of people born in 4 different, alternating, decades, those continually-running uber-tourist buses are really the way to go.

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You can stop and picnic any time you want. The scenery will be lovely.

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Kenandbelly's third annual NaBloPoMo effort is brought to you by the internet duh-duh-dongle we had in London this summer.

ooh la la

One of the highlights of our summer in London was welcoming my mom and my grandma to England. We saw a LOT of the city in the one week they visited. Our tiny one-bedroom was bursting, so we spent as much time as we could out and about. Here we are close to Picadilly Circus.

I'm bringing this up a little bit out of order because one of the places we visited while they were on this side of the Atlantic was PARIS! See, I've never seen Paris... since July, when these lovely ladies came to visit me. It was just lovely getting to see Paris with them. I'm going to be sharing photos over the next couple days to show you just how lovely it was! (fingers crossed that the posts I'm scheduling will go through).

Why am I scheduling posts? Isn't that bending the NaBloPoMo rules a tiny bit? Well, you see, Ben has never been to Paris. And my visit doesn't reeeally count because, have you really SEEN Paris when you haven't seen it with your sweetie? Methinks no. So, we're remedying that this weekend, in celebration of the inauguration of my third decade. Oui, oui we are!  Just the two of us, too!



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Kenandbelly's third annual NaBloPoMo effort is brought to you by the internet duh-duh-dongle we had in London this summer.

Squirrels at St. James Park

Don't let that squirrel's body language fool you. You bring a toddler to St. James park and let her pause along the railing and they start flocking. Park squirrels know that toddlers = free food. Or as Jayne would call it, "breads."

Okay, so I realized after posting that at this resolution the squirrel is hard to see, let alone its body language.  You'll have to trust me that it has its back turned toward Jayne.  

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Kenandbelly's third annual NaBloPoMo effort is brought to you by the internet duh-duh-dongle we had in London this summer.

Time for the Thames

Before we even finished unpacking the fifteen or sixteen (!) bags we brought down to London with us on the train we went exploring. Didn't consult a map, just stepped out our new front door, picked a likely street, and started walking. We chose Horseferry road and, before we knew it we were at the Thames.

It would probably be safe to guess that horses were ferried here once upon a time.



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Kenandbelly's third annual NaBloPoMo effort is brought to you by the internet dongle we had in London this summer. 

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As I may have whined mentioned a time or two (here) and (here) and (oh, here), etc, our reliance on a dongle for internet access in London this summer was a bit frustrating. Just when we had some really nifty photos to share, we couldn't share them without risking bruising our foreheads (from banging them against the closest brick wall). Thus, I posted a lot less about London than I would have liked.

Now that we're back in the twenty-first century and everything, my third annual NaBloPoMo is going to be my excuse to share some of our London pictures with you all! The plan is to post one a day for the rest of November. We'll see how that goes. 

I suppose it's only fitting to start at the source of the problem/NaBloPomo solution. Let me present to you the dongle, Official Sponsor (TM) of Kenandbelly's 2009 NaBloPoMo effort!

I really don't know why I'm smiling like that in that photo. Someone might think I liked the stupid thing or something.