Parisian Plans

[letterpress print by sycamorestreetpress]

I'm packing for a trip to Paris, my 1st one ever.  I've been wanting to go since I started taking French when I was 11, too bad I haven't kept it up since then.  Still, I'm looking forward to fitting in as much sightseeing and EATING as humanly possible.  Here's my wish-list, we'll see how it goes...

- Arc de Triomphe
- Avenue Montaigne
- Batignolles Market
- Boulevard Haussmann
- Champs-Élysées
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chateaubriand Restaurant
- Chez Josephine Dumonet Restaurant
- Fauchon
- Galeries Lafayette
- Gérard Mulot
- île de la Cité Marché aux Fleurs
- Jardin des Tuileries
- Jardin du Luxembourg
- Jean-Paul Hevin Chocolatier
- L'os a Moelle Restaurant
- La Regalade Restaurant
- La Seine 
- La Tour Eiffel
- La Vallee Village
- Ladurée
- Le Comptoir Restaurant
- Le Pont des Arts
- Le Porc Noir de Bigorre
- Lenôtre
- Les Deux Magots
- Les Fables de la Fontaine Restaurant
- Les Halles
- Maison Berthillon
- Montmarte
- Musée d'Orsay
- Notre Dame
- Palais de Tokyo
- Palais Royal
- Parc des Buttes Chaumont
- Passage Vivienne
- Poilâne Boulangerie
- Raspail Market
- Richard Lenoir Market
- Rodin Museum
- Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore
- Rue du Four
- Sacre Coeur
- Saint Germain des Pres
- Shakespeare and Company Bookshop
- Spring Restaurant
- Stohrer
- Versailles

Vacation Days continue in Bermuda

Just got back from a week-long cruise to Bermuda.  It was pretty, warm and fun: here's the white lava cocktail I sipped as the ship left the harbor.

There were gorgeous sunsets to watch as they slid into evening.

Dinners to get dressed up for:

and oh, so much food.

Excursions to the Royal Naval Dockyard

and St. George

where we couldn't believe how blue the water was

and we made a few new friends.

If you like pink as I've mentioned I do more than a few times before, this is the place for you, especially in the town of Hamilton:

so many pretty houses (in other colors too).

We took a sunset glass bottom boat to see the coral, fish and a shipwreck below.

And went to Horseshoe Bay

probably the most beautiful (and pink!) beach I've ever seen

where we climbed up a cliff to look around for miles

and the water was still clear.

Although this is NOT the way that I came down again.

It was a lovely trip, more pics to come!