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Post by sistereurope on May 21, 2007 11:38:50 GMT -5
I am so happy to have found photobucket - thanks Andi! I'm having fun with it - I like how it allows you to attach the various codes... Anyway, now that I've discovered my new toy I decided to join the fray and post a few of my favorite pics from our last trip to Paris in Dec/Jan 2006/2007. It was the first trip for my 3 teens...would I do some things differently? Yes. Do I regret taking them? Not on your life - it was an incredible experience and one I'd do again in a heartbeat! So, here are a few highlights of our trip, in pictures: Me and my husband waiting in the cold at L'Orangerie (I might have to vote Spring over Winter!) The oldest looking at MY favorite view in all of Paris!!! Sigh... The last stop on our insider walking tour of Montmarte. I don't think that SC is ugly, BTW As I posted on my other photo site : Two thumbs up for the Vedettes du Pont-Neuf (groan!!!) We didn't go up, only under...which is an amazing view in and of itself! My budding photographer My daughter's favorite place in Paris!! She is SO NOT her mother's daughter on that one! What gentlemen I have...
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Post by Shoesy on May 21, 2007 11:42:10 GMT -5
I love your pictures.
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Post by Happygoin on May 21, 2007 11:47:36 GMT -5
s.e. - you're such a weenie. I was there in Feb and it wasn't that cold. (Kidding...I loved all your pictures)
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on May 21, 2007 12:47:52 GMT -5
What great pix -- thanks for posting them!
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Post by holger on May 21, 2007 20:15:02 GMT -5
Terrific pictures. Thank you so much for sharing these pictures.
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Post by cybee on May 21, 2007 20:31:02 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing your pics and comments of your trip! Looks like you have a lovely family and that you had a fun time in Paris! What did you learn from this trip that you might have done differently "had you known"? I am thinking of taking one or two of my children (teens) to Paris maybe next year!
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Post by goldenmama on May 22, 2007 4:30:00 GMT -5
That was fun to look at! I especially appreciate the kid shots since we'll be going with ours in a few weeks and they look about the same age. Thanks!
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Post by andi on May 22, 2007 4:43:47 GMT -5
Lovely trip report there and nice to see it from the kids point of view too but just 1 question!!!! Are you sure them kids are yours? You don't look old enough? Thanks for sharing. ;D
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Post by sistereurope on May 22, 2007 8:20:14 GMT -5
Oh my Andi - you made my day! Since I'll soon to be in my last year as a forty-something, I just might have to exalt you for your comment! And thanks everyone else - it was nice to post these and re-live my memories. Cybee - I'm not sure if you remember my detailed trip report, but if I had it to do all over again I would have made sure that we ALL adjusted to the time change. We didn't have an alarm and kept sleeping in - and the older boy never adjusted at all. He missed several outings and then couldn't get to sleep until very late. In fact, we waited to go to the Louvre because that's the one museum he wanted to visit - not realizing that we waited too long (it was closed for NY and on the regular Tues and we left the next day!) So in retrospect I would have bought an alarm clock and kicked everyone out of bed much earlier!! I also forgot to write down the phone #'s of all of the bistros that I so carefully researched. It turns out that many were closed for the holidays and so we spent time searching that we could have spent eating and drinking. That's pretty much it, though...the positives far outweighed the negatives...after all, we were in Paris!!!
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Post by Truffaut on May 22, 2007 8:23:48 GMT -5
Loved that last picture of your son gallantly holding the umbrella. ....anything for a teenage boy to get close to a pair of naked breasts!
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Post by sistereurope on May 22, 2007 8:53:30 GMT -5
Yeah, that one scares me Truffaut...our French friend took them to a nightclub and he kept asking our friend to teach him some pick-up lines in French!! Thankfully they didn't work
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Post by iank9 on May 23, 2007 3:24:12 GMT -5
Sistereurope,
Thanks for the report, the pictures are great. You have to share the reponsibility therefore of our earlier than expected return.
Merci Beaucoup!!! ;D ;D
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Post by sistereurope on May 23, 2007 8:04:02 GMT -5
Ian I will gladly accept any and all responsibility for someone's visit to Paris. I think I've made myself crazy, though...I have to nail down my own return trip or I'm going to lose what's left of my mind
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Post by susanb on May 28, 2007 13:33:29 GMT -5
Alarm clock or not, I don't know if you'd get teen'age boys out of bed on holiday. Its not the way their internal clock functions.
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Post by trechic on May 30, 2007 7:14:37 GMT -5
Thank You SE for those photos of you and your family! The photo of your favorite scene in Paris? Were you on the left bank of the Siene looking at St. Chappelle (sp)? This is a complete guess, as you know, I have not as yet been to Paris!!
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Post by sistereurope on May 30, 2007 7:50:38 GMT -5
Hi Trechic, Thanks for your comments!
It was the left back that we were standing on...but I was referring to the view of Notre Dame. For me, it was seeing Notre Dame for the first time that gave me the shivers and made me realize "I'm in Paris". I'm still moved whenever I see it. The Eiffel tower just doesn't move me in the same way...
You're going to love Paris.
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