It's not that we don't love you...

...but not only are we exhausted at the end of each day, but our internet connection is kind of spotty. So, if you have been expecting more frequent posts, sorry!!!

Nous aimons manger!

Ohmygod, it seems like the main thing we've done is eat. So far we have devoured at least 30 baguettes and 15 rotisserie chickens, plus dined out on Moroccan food (twice...mmmmm, the couscous is sooooo good!), Pakistani (in London; pretty much the same as Indian, but don't say that out loud since they hate each other), Vietnamese (same thing in a way, don't ask for a Thai ice coffee at a Vietnamese noodle shop), some traditional fish and chips, plus a few French brasseries. And that doesn't even include all the cheese and sausage we've scarfed down. Lemme tell you, even though we eat pretty well in the states, going back home to a Whole Foods roasted chicken is going to be a bummer. Anyway, here are some fun food shots:

Le jambon et fromage crepe! In a park next to the Champs-Élysées.
Sooooo delicious, and it's only from a park concession stand.
As Goldilocks put it, a crepe is a "french burrito".

Just when we thought the crepes were the best street food around, along came this.
Essentially a chicken gyro (you New Yorkers know the typical "grey lamb on a spit" stands),
this left the crepes in the dust. Hard to tell from this pic, but it was chicken on a spit:
golden, crispy, salty chicken goodness, all wrapped in a gyro with lettuce, tomato, special sauce
and crunchy, golden fries. So good, we went back later in the day for another round.

Did I mention the wine is really good too?
We're working on a cork collection to rival this one.

Ok, this is from London (which was a letdown in some ways,
mostly because our hotel totally screwed us, but that's another story).
As we were riding a double decker bus (so fun, but the drivers are INSANE!)
back from Abbey Road, Goldilocks spied this place called "Yo! Sushi"
in Selfridges Department Store (which was crazy on it's own;
voted the best department store in the world last year,
it makes Harrods look like Woolworth's).
It's one of those places where the food comes by on a conveyer belt
(hopefully we can get video of that up later), which we had heard about but never seen.
All the dishes are priced by color (yellow being the most expensive...go figure),
so they just add it up when you're done. While we managed to knock off 3 sakes and 17 dishes,
we felt better when the waiter told us about the guy who ate 36 plates all by himself!

This is from "Bill Wyman's Sticky Fingers Cafe"
(the bass player from the Rolling Stones...kind of like a Hard Rock Cafe,
but just with Stones stuff) that we ate at at the end of "Rock and Roll Day"
in London (Goldilocks wants to do the London post, so be patient).
The chicken wings (shown here) were really good!

We found this at a Parisian candy store,
it's a two foot gummy snake.

This is a typical lunch; bread, cheese, ham, salami,
and whatever else looks good at the farmer's market.

Guess where we were tonight?

You say tomato, we say le tomato

Differences #2

-Some doorknobs are huge here, and in the center of the door, not on the side.

-The public trashcans are just a hoop with a bag and not big, old, ugly cans, like in America (no offense).

-The recycling bins are huge! They look like spaceships, but not in the form of a flying saucer.

-Goldilocks

Enchante!

Enchante, translates to "pleased to meet you", which I think is rather apropos to our take on Paris...and since a picture says a 1,000 words (and there isn't enough wine in the house to wax philosophical) let me enchant you with our Paris thus far.

(In Paris, all time is shown in 24hr format. One late night as we were getting to bed,

I turned to see that time on our clock...found it rather amusing.)

(Mrs. Frog - - Laduree was as YUMMY and fanciful as you said.)

(Josephine, naturally.)

(This was taken around 10pm!)