10. Eiffel Picnic with PITA CHIPS & HUMMUS!!!
This is REAL EXCITEMENT. I can't find pita chips in Paris.
Pita
chips & hummus were a nightly ritual at our apartment. We would
sometimes leave at 11pm to make a grocery store run if we were out. I
could walk blindfolded into Tom Thumb, snag both of these items, check
out, and return safely to my car out of habit alone. Backwards. While
talking on the phone. Hopping on one leg. Can't imagine any other way to get my pita chips.
9. French Food
We ate well. I won't go into detail.
Ok I will. Cafe cremes, croissants, macarons, gazpacho w/ tomato and basil SORBET, a
massive cote de boeuf that took up an entire table, crazy bacon-topped
lobster salad masterpieces, a bowl of rice pudding bigger than Katrina's
head, zucchini cucumber soup w/ black truffles, raspberry
millefeuille...on and on and on. I may just do an entire blog post about the desserts.
8. Night Bike Tour
Can
we talk about how my ice cream cone is already empty?? Just a hollow
shell of a cone that once held ice cream before I hoovered it out of
there in 30 seconds flat.
...or how my camera accidentally went off as we hopped back on bikes, and I look like Jack in the Box in this picture.
Paris is SO beautiful at night, I can hardly stand it. Especially as the sun is setting. BAH!!
One
of my favorite things is people going crazy over being on a boat. Or
seeing people on a boat. Suddenly everyone feels compelled to scream and
wave at each other. Can you imagine if while walking down the street
everyone just started screaming "Wooooo!!!" and waving at you? But when
you're on a boat, it's just standard. Everyone turns into kids again.
"You're on a boat!! I'm on a bridge!! Wooo!!!!"
7. Rue Pasteur Wagner
Shout out to the Watermark peeps!! We found Todd's street!
6. Freaky First Night in Scotland
This
was the WEIRDEST night, we just couldn't get over it. We landed in
Edinburgh about 10pm or so and headed to our B&B. We were walking
down an eerie, barely lit, yellowish street, silent, empty, and filled
with fog - straight out of a scene from Harry Potter. Dementors flew out, tried to suck my soul out of my face, but I cast my patronus (a baguette) and saved our lives.
Then
we finally found our B&B and the hostess acted like we were
interrupting her in the middle of the night, rushed us through the
place, practically threw the key at us and gave us 2 seconds to make our
breakfast order for the next morning. Katrina wanted something simple like a banana and ended up ordering a traditional Scottish breakfast with smoked salmon & eggs because she got all scared and nervous. "STEAK! I'll take STEAK! Ahhh I wanted cereal. Why did I get that??"
Since we got in so late and
hadn't eaten, we walked down the street to "Crystal's Unicorn" for some
traditional Scottish Chinese take-out. While walking outside with our
food, a gigantic thundering boom/cannon/explosion/firework filled the
air at a deafening volume, like we were under attack. "What
is going on??? Why is Scotland so weird???" This is our "Why is
Scotland so weird" face:
First the dementors, now cannon fire, we're just trying to eat our Chinese food from the glowing purple & blue Crystal's Unicorn Chinese Palace.
5. Carpet Picnic
We had to eat our Unicorn Chinese on the floor in the bedroom, after
stealing forks from the made-up table downstairs, assuming, of course, we
would be kicked out the next morning for this theft.
4. Hairy Coo Tour
A day tour of the Scottish Highlands!
This is a hairy coo.
3. Holy Grail
Yes, we saw the
ACTUAL castle from Monty Python & the Holy Grail. Yes, there were
coconuts. Yes, I galloped around the whole time banging the coconuts
together with this exact look on my face.
2. Scottish Food
These are my kind of people!! I'm a protein girl. Look at that breakfast! Throw on a steak and some peanuts.
What's that? Don't I eat a 9-foot baguette every day? Shut up, I eat protein.
1. Laughing so hard I tore my abdomen
Or had a hernia. Or both. More to come on this. Prepare your abs, do some sit-ups, and we'll meet back here in a couple days.
