France!

(Musée ďOrsay on the Seine)

In between Bam and M's birthdays, DH and I went to France for a week. It was a wonderful, enchanted trip in so many ways. Even though our luggage was lost entirely for 1 1/2 days and our coats until the last 2 days of the trip. Even though it was really really cold for our desert bodies (okay it was 40-50 degrees during the day.) We ate a lot of yummy bread; we walked and walked and walked and visited several museums and churches and monuments. (Notre Dame)

We walked the Champs-Élysées in the rain.

We climbed to the top of the Arc de Triomphe, twice. We rode the funicular to the top of the Sacré Cœer


We rode the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower and were there at dark when it starts to sparkle.


It was lovely. It was great fun to have this time with just DH, knowing our kidlets were safe and well cared for by family and watched over by friends.

I want to go back. I want to live there. We found ourselves imagining a trip, a life, in France as a family. A life that we currently have no reason to plan. But fun all the same.

We didn't just go to France to play though. We went for a simple two day weekend in the middle of all our sightseeing and which two days meant more than all the marvels we saw.

(Winged Victory at the Louvre)

And that, I will get to, eventually.