this weekend

so we had a decently eventful weekend.

Friday night we bought take out chinese food from the place around the corner. Not good =P Will probably not go back.

Saturday, we went with my friend Maggie to the Salon du Chocolate. As the name suggest, it is all about chocolate. It's a huge exposition all about chocolate. We got to try a lot of samples and Germain bought some cookies he really likes. In his defense, it was cheaper than at the supermarket. They had chocolate everything there! However, not every booth gave things out to try. =( but we did get a fair share of samples.

an all chocolate Arc de Triomphe. It was very impressive!

look it all that chocolate!

oo pretty

Today was the rugby world championship. France was playing against New Zealand. Unfortunately we loss. Germain is quite upset about that. It was only by one point too!!

Afterwards we went with some friends to the Catacombs. We had to wait an hour and a half before going in. Luckily it was a pretty day out.

Catacombs are where they moved 6 million human remains. They excavated all the remains from local cemeteries and buried them underground. We had to walk down a long spiral staircase and through a series of tunnels. There were a lot of bones and skeletons. Pretty creepy. 

a high and pretty ceiling underground

bones and skulls

just a glimpse of all the skeletons

It was a pretty long walk.

And tomorrow back to school. But this week is only my two hour class. I don't have my phonetics class. yay ^_^

2 weeks later

So a lot has happened in the last two weeks.

So we did it....we got married! My family stayed in France for a little while and then they left. We went on a mini honeymoon to Prague and now back to real life.

Germain's back in classes and I just started another French class. yay.......

Here are a couple pictures from the last two weeks!

Us on our wedding day

The new family

View of Cannes from the mountain tops

Mom and dad at the Eiffel tower by night

Prague. Crossing the Charles Bridge

A church by night

Roasting pork. yum.

Us with view of Prague

Inside the church in the Palace

the astronomical clock

 Went to dinner in Mougin last night. it was a very pretty night.

Germain's steak tartar

my duck pate

our huge dessert yum!

And here is a glimpse of the church where the religious ceremony will take place! Pretty no?

One week!!

a little more than one week until the wedding! and theres still so many little things to do! Things are moving on tho (thank goodness!) but its starting to cut close.

this past week we've done a lot of things for the wedding...including going to the border of Italy for a day trip to find clothes for Germain. It wasn't the nicest part of Italy.......not like what you expect to see from the movies.....it was just a shopping street that we went to.

In the streets of Italy!

 It also rained for the first time since we've been in Cannes. It was ok bc we had a lot of things to do inside. However, the sky and sunset looked beautiful afterwards.

Sunset over the mountains

 Yesterday we went to several nurseries to look for a particular flower to put right outside the house. We weren't able to find the flower Germain's mother wanted, but we bought a couple of things for the wedding instead....candle, ribbon, etc.

At the flower shop

Pretty flowers

So hope you guys started packing......one week until many of you fly over!

So many mosquitoes!

lol. yes there are a ton of mosquitoes here! my legs are sooo bitten up! Hopefully it will be better at the end of September!

So I spent my first birthday in France. We didn't do too much. Walked around Cannes during the day. Did some wedding stuff. Germain took me to a Japanese restaurant for dinner. It had the sushi belt!

Sushi Belt!

 On Saturday we had lunch with Germain's cousin. We've gone to the Italian restaurant before...it is very nice. It has very good food and the desserts are delicious!!

Panna Cotta dessert!

Haven't done too much since then. We went to Nice yesterday in the morning. We walked by the beach and a little bit in the old town. Today we looked for wedding stuff.

17 days to go!!!

Cannes

So we've been back in Cannes for a week now and its been pretty busy since. We've met up with someone involved with the wedding every day since!

We went several times to the location of the reception to meet with people or to try out things for the wedding (like wine). And I think we got a lot done.

We still have a ton to do, but its mostly little details now. yay!

The view from the mountains of Cannes is really beautiful.

View of Cannes from the mountains

 We also went to a medieval village by Cannes in Mougin (which is where the wedding will take place....the city...not the medieval village. It also has a beautiful view of the city. However, we went at night so the pictures don't come out very good.

Looking at the city

The medieval village

 And this is for all of you Simpson fans. Lol. Saw this in a store in Cannes.

Disneyland!!

Disney!

Yes....I'm in Paris and we went to Disneyland! It's only about a 45 minute train ride away from the city. It's a lot smaller than the one in Orlando (of course) but we had fun.

Pink castle!

 There are actually a lot of attractions that are not available in the Orlando location.

For example, Alice's Labyrinth. It's a maze made out of trees and such. Pretty neat.

Which way to go????

The Cheshire Cat

In front of the Queen of Heart's castle

Of course there are some classics....

The Haunted Mansion

Small World

And of course....Parades

Luckily it was a smaller park because we were pretty tired so we didn't stay of the fireworks. But of course we walked around some shops and looked at cute stuff!