L'automne à Paris

It feels like it's been a crazy last 6 months with visitors and trips almost back to back the entire time.  The past few months we've had several weeks in Paris.  So what have we been up to, you might ask?  Aside from relaxing, catching up on U.S. tv (aka Breaking Bad and the Office), we've also been out enjoying Paris!

Be sure to check out all of our pictures from fall in Paris here.

MM Dix-Sept: Permis de Conduire

I'm realizing I'm pretty terrible at these Monday Minutes, but here's finally a new one!  And it's definitely, an "Ohhhhhh, France" one (similar to my prefecture post).

You would think now that we've lived here for almost 10 months that we'd be done dealing with applying for things.  But no, we're finding that paperwork is never ending here in France.  So here's the story of getting our permis de conduire (driver's licenses).

Road Trip Trois: Rothenburg & Strasbourg

Feeling pretty pumped that we finally got our castle pictures, we made the drive up to Rothenburg through rain and cold!

Road Trip Deux: Bavaria & Tirol

As I mentioned in our Munich post, we arrived to lots of fog in Bavaria.

Also, I have to preface this post with the caveat that this is some of my weakest writing to date on the blog.  I apologize.  Sometimes it's just so exhausting going through pictures that I don't care about the writing....

Road Trip Un: Munich & Oktoberfest

We've found something we've never done in 11.5 years as a couple...a true, long road trip!  So last week we took our first road trip through Germany.


We had a great week, and even though we are convinced Bavaria is actually just German for heavy fog all the time, we still saw some awesome sights and beautiful fall colors.  Nick's also ready to become German: we discovered we liked sauerkraut (is it really possible we never tasted this in Wisconsin?) and he's pretty much fluent in German after this week.  While he carried on conversations with our B&B hosts, I just stared like a little kid with a smile on my face while pretending I knew what was going on.  Where did my German go you ask?  I have no idea....I'm just hoping my French sticks around a little longer than my German did!