Photos from Our Trip!

It's been exactly one month since we had arrived in Paris. And in honor of that special occasion, I finally uploaded photos.

Five of my favorite photographs:






I am pretty pleased. I had over 600 photos, all shot manually. Shooting manually gives me so much room to explore and push my exposures. All of the cathedrals and museums were no flash zones, so I really had to manipulate my settings to get the results that I wanted.

I need to get our photography website up and running. We've been asked to shoot a wedding (I had to decline - my skills are no where good enough to shoot weddings), engagement photos, and holiday photos. I'm so excited that people are beginning to think of us first for pictures. It's so much fun for us, it's the best date in the world and such a joy trying to capture the happy moments in a digital format.

More photos from my Canon EOS here.

And of course, the obligatory slideshow, for one stop viewing!

It's Halloween already??

Yeah, so we've been really out of it.

Turns out French restaurants have a much different standard keeping their food. Bacteria levels in their food tend to be much, much higher than in the US. And thus the husband became very sick, and we had to spend the majority of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with various doctors and in the hospital. They hooked him up to three liters of IV he was so dehydrated.

France was a bit of a crappy experience all around. Pun intended. Thank goodness for beer and Belgium.

So once the Hubs stopped the process of dying and started recovering, I got the flu. And so instead of taking care of him I've been getting high off of theraflu and sleeping. And suddenly it's Saturday. I have a Halloween party to get ready for. This whole week was supposed to be dedicated to sewing my costume. And I need to make jello shots. And now I'm panicking.

Drinking earl grey with lavender. It is delicious. It's not even 8am. I'm going to march into a Halloween store, pick out the gaudiest, ugliest garb I can find. And then I'm going to make jello shots and all will be well.

See? Disaster adverted.

Home!

Home. Safe and sound.

It was an epic trip... catching mass at Notre Dame. Getting stuck in strikes in France AND Belgium. Watching the sunrise from under the Eiffel Tower (cold but unforgettable). Beautiful, incredible Brugge.

We were nine hours ahead... so it's officially 12:20 am on Monday according to our internal clocks. Laundry. Picking up the dog. Finding some sort of food. Adjusting to home.

Planning for Flight Boredom

On our entertainment list for 19 hours of flying:

Three TV Shows on iPod: two episodes of Castle and one of Madmen
Two books on Kindle: Naked Heat and Heat Wave (Yes, I AM a castle fan)
One DS game: Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar
And a journal.

Taiwan may be in our near future, too- Sometime between November and January. I guess I need to get over the whole "I'm going to die!" thing every time I step foot on a plane.

Booked.

Just purchased round-trip tickets to Paris.