Thursday, February 20, 2014
This is Jan! We have decided that Mondays will be "P" days - everything is closed!!! It's been a great weekend. We got up to go to church, fell back asleep and slept til 100 pm. So we decided to walk to the church anyway to see where it is. Two hours later we finally found it. Next Sunday will be a cake walk. ;o) Today: doing my first load of laundry, just finished the dishes, Randy is studying by watching "Erkle" in French. ;o( We went to the Academie Nationale de Musique, Le Jardin des Tulliers, and to the Palais Royale (couldn't figure out how to get in the garden). We live on a very busy street with a market and bio (organic) food store close by. I passed my first level of French with Rosetta Stone. If I can one a day I will be proficient by April 30, 2015. haha. Starting to miss our friends and family, but it's all still an adventure. We really need to find some volunteer work to do!!!!
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So, we went to England over the weekend, well Friday and Saturday. Jan (me) was crunched in the back seat with the most incredible woman of great light ever! Randy, of course got the luxurious middle seat...with windows. All I saw of England came from an 6x 8 inch window. We drove directly to the Marriott (very lovely) dressed for the London Temple where we spent most of the evening. I ordered fish and chips at the hotel restaurant....and got french fries instead of English chips....can you believe it? In England? Don't the English know that some Ex-Pats will drive for six hours through the chunnel and sit for 4 more hours just to get REAL ENGLISH CHIPS?!?!?!?! ARGRGRGRGRG!!!!!
ReplyDeleteActually, the countryside that I saw was very pastoral, very cottagy, very English. There was horse racing right next to the Marriott. I love horses! My uncle used to raise American Saddle Breds for show. I thought it would be so much fun to just see a race. Unfortunately, there were NONE while we were there. Plus I had to miss the next morning's temple activities as I had a Horendous Allergy Attack from sleeping on luxurious down pillows and comforters. It could only happen to me. Up in the middle of the night packing my face with hot water to clear my sinuses, playing secret agent to sneak the extra pillow from under Randy's head without waking him so there would be only ONE pillow on the bed, teaching myself many folding tricks to get a bath towel worth sleeping on (Help me Obi Wan, I need Jordan to make me some "hair!")
All in all it was an experience. The people we rode with made it so much fun! Three Parisians who spoke almost no English and two Americans on quasi-assignment from the U.S. Government. By the way, did you know that if you stay in a country for more than a couple of days you're supposed to alert the American Consulate, so that if you get in trouble, they have a heads up on who/where you are? We could do it online, but that would be a terrible waste of an excuse to actually go into and SEE a consulate. So, I guess that's on tap for Monday.
Today we walked to church twice because Randy forgot the money to give the bishop for our portion of the car rental and hotel for the temple trip. So we walked home during Sunday School. When we returned for Relief Society, the RS Pres asked myself and three other American visitors if one of us could lead the music...oh, and it turned out they had to teach the sisters the alto part of "Sisters in Zion" as part of the deal. I said "yes" before I knew about the teaching. My Franglaise was hilarious when we got to the teaching part, but it was so much fun!!! Next week I am playing the piano. Lucky for me I brought the Easy-to-play-hymnal (the very easiest) and that there is a piano to practice on sitting near the front door of the Visitor's Center. Elise Allred told me I was just in Paris to let my light shine, that I didn't have to do anything else....
Someone, ANYONE, needs to fb Randy and tell him that he can comment on his own page! He still thinks he works for the state and has a personal secretary....
DeleteHey ran across this article in the SF Chronicle, some dry window shopping!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Sample-of-Paris-life-at-19th-century-shopping-5254094.php
Have a great trip!