!!Paris!!

There is a song that says "I Love Paris in the Springtime." I am not ready to say I love Paris, but it was fun. Well we found out that Paris can be great at this time of year.

I have a husband who is a travel bug. I like to travel, but not as often as he does. Whenever he is going to be off school and not teaching over a holiday he is looking for a place to go. With our daughter working for the airlines we are able to fly free which facilitates our traveling.

We just had Spring Break so you guessed it, he decided we were going to fly to Paris, France, since we couldn't get flights to places like Hawaii, with it being spring break and most people go to warm places on their break. We left on a Sunday night and got back on Wednesday night. We spent just a couple days there. For me it was too long of a flight for being there for such a short time, 9 1/2 hours there and 10 1/2 back, but we did get 1st class coming home so it wasn't quite so bad.

Here are a few pictures from our getaway there.

Monty on balcony of our hotel

Our hotel was a block from the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is huge. We walked up the stairs of it.

Some romance in Paris

Great views from up there on the tower!

Pretty flowers planted and growing in Paris

This is the boat that we rode down the Seine River.

One of the bridges you go under while riding down the Seine River on the boat.

You can get on and off the boat at the different sights for the whole day with the pass you buy.

This is the Notre-Dame Cathedral

This is Jesus and the 12 Apostles on the outside of Notre Dame.

Stained glass windows inside.

This is the Louvre.

It was closed on the day we were there so we just walked around outside. Luckily we had been inside before, but it would have been great to go in again and see all the art. We at least got to see the pyramid outside that wasn't there the last time we came.

This is the Champs Elysees, a long street that runs into the L'Arc de Triomphe.

This is the famous shopping street with major stores. We didn't do any shopping though. We did walk down this long street and ate lunch at McDonalds there. I was tired from all the walking.

This is looking from the L'Arc de Triomphe back down the street to show you how long it is.

There were stores like Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss. I took this for Traci. She would love to shop on this street.

Guess who at the L'Arc de Triomphe

Monty loved all the tiny cars that people drove over there.

Maybe we should get one for St. George.

And to finish off with the Eiffel Tower lit up at night.

Thanks Paris, it was fun!!

Grandkids

Josh, Traci, & Ian came down Sunday night to visit for the week. I can't believe that Ian is already 4 months old. He is so cute. I don't get to see him often and it took about a day before he really warmed up to me and now he smiles all the time at me.

Josh & Ian

Traci hiding & Ian

I flew up north last Thursday to tend the grandkids, and to help Heston and Brandi pack up and get ready to move back to North Ogden.

Deklan


Dallin

Kate

Smiles for grandma


I spent Friday night at Kallee's House. Kallee and Chad went to a wedding reception. Moises and Jay built a hut out of blankets. The three of us went inside the hut. I got my flashlight I brought up and I turned off the lights. We were getting ready to play the game "CLUE" while in the hut with just the flashlight on. It was a spooky atmosphere. Chad and Kallee came home from a wedding reception right then. We were hiding in the hut and had the lights off. We were going to scare them, but they figured out where we were before we had the chance. The boys wanted to watch a video after that, so we didn't end up playing Clue, but it was fun. Thanks Moises and Jay for the fun time. Kallee and I made bread while Moises and Jay watched the movie. Chad went out and worked on a car. I flew home the next morning to sunny St. George.

When I got home and saw Demmy, she was so excited to show me that she was able to take out her first earrings and put in other earrings now, so I snapped a quick picture on my cell phone of her with her new dangly earring. You are so cute Demmy.

Demmy, Grandpa & Dylan in the background



Grandkids Are Great!!