Way Back Wednesday

A friend of mine from college hosts a little blog link up once a week called, Way Back Wednesday.  It's pretty cute!  You post about something from back in the days before blogging!


So here is my first Way Back Wednesday post...you should do it too!!

Our second Christmas as a married couple, we were living in Norway, and the max John allowed off of work was 5 days...so we decided to stay in Europe.

 This was the view of our town in Norway, Kristiansand.  See the little intersection there?  That is the main shopping street!  Were were living downtown!  Big city folk here!  (That's a joke, see how small this place is!?)

The whole town shuts down for holidays so we'd be stuck inside.  SOoooooooo, where in Europe did we decide to go?

 Paris!  Can't you tell?

I still don't know how to take night pictures.  Deal with it. :)

We ate lots and lots of crepes.

Bought really sophisticated hats, scarves and pocket watches.  

Okay, he didn't really buy the pocket watch.

Went to the Louvre.

Went to Christmas Eve Mass at Notre Dame.

Funny:  We thought we were going to the most traditional service we'd ever experience.  Instead they had one very artsy service.  Literally.  It was art played on a big screen with someone speaking about them (or speaking about something) in French.  We stayed 2 hours...then snuck out early.  Crazy.

Moulin Rouge during the day, to pick up our tickets.

And at night.

This was my choice of activities.

Still at Moulin Rouge.

Funny:  I convinced John to go by explaining that these women who were dancing and singing would be topless!!!  He was so excited!  Thinking WOW, Sarah and I are both going to love this.  About half way through he leaned over and said "how long is this thing??"  The singing and dancing killed the toplessness for him.  I knew right then convincing him to EVER go the Nutcracker was out of the question.

This is a random public bathroom.  I just thought it was funny.

You're welcome John!

More crepes!

This was in the Latin Quarter!

It's pretty touristy, but sooo much fun!  Lots of restaurants with loud music and breaking plates.

So the story behind this is...I get randomly selected out of crowds for strange things.  If the person on stage or your professor is going to call on someone, it is me.  It's horrible.  But I've learned to go with the flow or admit I did not do my reading the night before.

So here, they pulled me from our table to dance in the middle of the restaurant with this other family from China.  Nice.  Notice people watching or participating from their tables?  No!  It was random and embarrassing.

Then they wanted me to sing with the band.

I have the worst voice ever!!!

And John was nice enough to take lots of pictures.

Parised out!

Final night!

You would take pictures with the restaurant staff too, if they had giving you lots of free wine!

Last view of the Eiffel Tower!

This is probably how we were seeing things too.  Kidding!

Funny John.  Poor guy actually fell one second later, breaking the little fence.

And the morning after all our free wine!  Whew!  Thanks Paris!

Well, we somehow don't have the best pictures of everything we did.  Actually, we only seem to have very random ones!  But what a fabulous week and a Merry Christmas!  At least we have the memories!!