Edith’s Birth Step
Today started off great. I woke up to Lipstick by Jedward. Nobody could be grumpy around such a song. Go to Youtube and listen to it, you’ll be changed. I […]
Category Archives: Europe
Catcalled
[Carrying on from yesterday.] I’ll never get over these two: It was getting late and the cemetery was going to close in about twenty minutes, so we headed towards the […]
My Future Resting Place
It was very difficult to get Jessica moving this morning, I had to try and wake her twice, which rarely happens as she can usually manage to get herself going, […]
Praying For Bread?
Weekends are my least favorite times in Paris–everybody is out and about, everything is crowded. Sundays are the worst because everything is closed and everybody is still out and about. […]
Eurovision Makes Everything Better
Today began very…blah. Nothing really seemed overly inspiring and nothing stuck out to me as something that seemed interesting to do. I scrolled through my list of the places that […]
Olivia Hunting
The baguette we had purchased on our first day here had long since gone stale–no amount of reheating would resuscitate it, so I went downstairs to the bakery only to […]
Was Karl That Old Woman?
There were many disconnected ideas about what we would do today, so we kind of did whatever we felt like and in the end it all worked out just fine. […]
Gaga Hunting & Bonjour Paris
I must have had a big ass sleep debt because I slept forever! I woke up at 9:30, but that was far too early. So I reset the alarm for […]
Out Wandering
Within a few moments, those Swiss people are really very timely, we were off the plane and inside the depths of Charles du Gaulle airport. Once again, I had to […]
London — Going Home
I’m writing this blog from my kitchen back at home in Iowa. I thought it would be nice, but it is still rather, well, dull outside. In London, Spring is […]
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