Christmas 2009 Vacation Lookback

Last year, my family went to Paris for Christmas! I had never been before, and we spent a week walking around, touring museums, and pretending we were locals in our rented 3-bedroom apartment. It was such a wonderful family trip. If I had a blog last year, I would have written a lovely recap with beautiful pictures, but instead, I made a scrapbook.

Here is a look back through pictures.

We stayed in an apartment in the Luxembourg Gardens area. We loved going to the little corner grocery stores, the patisseries, boulangeries, etc. Christmastime was pretty quiet in the residential areas, but the city was beautiful.

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Day 1 arrival. We walked and walked and here we’re over the Seine.
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Sunset near the Champps.
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Bevo, is that you? Jeffrey found you.
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Thanks for jumping in our picture, Shelley.
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My name is Marci, I will spew out random facts about Versailles over the next 12 hours. I carried a Rick Steves guide book with me everywhere we went. It was very helpful and incredible accurate!
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We climbed the Eiffel Tower. It wasn’t so bad!
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A food blogger in the making…Shelley and Jeffrey attempt snails.
We didn’t really like the food of France. Except for wine, French fries, bread, and pastries.
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The Modern Museum, Musee d’Orsay
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Starbucks serves pancakes?
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We did a Champagnery tour of Taittenger in the Champagne region of France. It was really neat to learn, similar to wine making, but bubblier.
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We only got a few family pictures of all 5 of us. Here was one.
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Our Paris trip was very memorable and we had so much fun. And I like being in winter during winter. I really like scarves, boots, hats and heavy coats. Thanks Mom and Dad!

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  1. Loved these pics!
    You look so happy on them :D
    I bet you guys were having a blast.
    Happy Holidays, girl!

  2. I went to Paris in high school. It was fun, but I didn’t care for the food too much either.

  3. When you say “we didn’t like the food,” you mean you didn’t like the food. I just had a hard time getting the snail out of the shell! Once out, it went right in my mouth. I love Paris, French food, and everything in between.

    Remember the dude in the bathroom at that restaurant??

  4. Thanks for the beautiful pics and commentary on a wonderful trip to Paris. For sure a good time was had by all. Also, thanks for leaving out the part about how cold it was the morning we went to Versailles, misjudged the train stop and first ended up in a really small village one stop away,and finally backtracked to Versailles. But it was worth it!

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