France Reconnaissance Trip - Paris

These are pictures of our (Nicole and I) first trip to France to pick out a house and schools for the kids. The first set of pictures are of our visit to Paris before going to the Cherbourg area.


Champs Elysées and Jardin des Tulleries

Incredible Hulk in FNAC on Champs Elysées

Arc de Triomphe

Hôtel des Invalides

This place was just over the top. Exactly what you might expect from or of Napoleon. thing that looks like a chair or stool is his sarcophagus which is about 20 feet tall or so. It also had a neat little museum in several of the buildings which held all of the weaponry that Napoleon had collected throughout history. I highly recommend this place if you're ever going to visit Paris.

Île de la Cité and Place de l'Opéra

We just had to take a picture of the Berlitz in Paris since we took classes with Berlitz. We wanted to send it to one of our teachers who had spent almost his entire life trying to learn French and had never been to France.

Le Louvre

We actually fell asleep for a tiny bit in The Louvre because we were so whiped out from the plane ride which we did not sleep on despite the sleeping stuff we took. The story behind the green sign is that we followed this sign for a while in the Louvre trying to get out but did not realize it was the emergency exit and not regular exit. We called him "The Running Man."

Nicole with Niké

These pictures are of me with Emperor Tiberius who I look exactly like in some of his statues.

Tour Eiffel

The sign about the pickpockets was funny because the English is a literal translation of the French. So we joked about the fact that there was a family or group called "The Pickpockets" who one had to watch out for.

In the last picture, there were actually guards with machine guns that came by for a bit. They left as quickly as they appeared and we do not know why they were there.

This was a rose that we saw left on the way to the Eiffel Tower. The last photo is Charles de Gaulle airport.

Oregon Trail

This was our last homeschool outing before going off to France and throwing out kids into the bowels of public school. We went with the Mailloux's and Bennetts to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City, Oregon.

Fishing Trip

These are some pictures of our second fishing expedition in May with our expert guide, Ron Hadley.

Seattle

These pictures are from a trip to Seattle to fly out to Arizona. I was in Bellevue for the week for French language training and Nicole and the kids came to join me to fly to Arizona before we left for France.

Easter 2009

After a long absence and a trip to Ireland and Nicole thinking about doing the blog but realizing that learning French and editing pictures was enough work, I'm back doing the blog. I am starting back in April with pictures from Easter.