Tuesday, June 25, 2013

And Now a Break From Our Regularly-Scheduled Programming!

We’ve had a fair amount of posts about Le Cordon Bleu, but almost none about our other experiences in Paris, so I thought I should share a bit.

Our adventures haven’t taken us very far, and certainly not out of France. The first day we hit all of the tourist-y spots on a Hop-On-Hop-Off bus. Since we’ve both been to Paris before we really didn’t have any destinations we absolutely had to go. Once Jacob started class and I had more free time I spent some time shopping for a wedding dress (how could I not shop when in one of the fashion capitals of the world?!) as well as hitting some of the lesser known museums.

Overall my biggest surprise involves…sunglasses. My goodness, if you want to feel like an obvious outsider walk around Paris in sunglasses. So few people do that I’m shocked when I see another person wearing them. That doesn’t stop me one bit as my eyes are fairly sensitive, but it brings a smile to my face just thinking about how odd that is to me. What a weird thing to even notice! :-)

The farthest we’ve gone is an hour outside of Paris. This past Sunday, our normal day off for the week, Jacob and I went to Disneyland Paris (formerly Euro Disney). It consists of two parks, the Magic Kindgom and Walt Disney Studios, as well as a Disney Village and numerous hotels. I was raised on Disney and am obsessed with every last detail of the whole company, so it’s an under exaggeration to say I was excited.

It was great fun and such a nice break, almost as if we had left Europe for a bit. Our favorite ride? Crush’s Coaster, which broke down while we were on it the second time. And we’re talking light’s on- evacuation-break-down. Good fun for us, and I got a few nice videos of the inside of the ride. One video is below (we'll spare you the one of me talking).



Besides that, a memorable moment was when triplee (Jacob) stayed true to his AGO pledge name by tripping in front of a girl wearing a ucla sweatshirt while he was wearing a “Fight On!” shirt. He got so many sighs from me. :-)

More posts about our courses to come!

~Sarah

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