We love this city!

Of course he came prepared with a padlock (that he engraved himself) to hang on the "bridge of love" in Paris. It is tradition for lovers to put a padlock on the fence over the bridge and then throw the key into the river as a symbol of unbreakable, eternal love. So we did just that. I know, super mushy but it was awesome! Can't wait to bring my girls here some day and show them our padlock on the bridge.

I made the smooching picture small so as to not traumatize the children.

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"The Hamlet" at Versailles. We felt like we had walked into 'Pride and Predjudice' or some kind of amazing fairytale when we got here. So beautiful, so amazing, SO romantic.

Our girls would have LOVED this place.

One thing we have embraced fully while in Paris is picnicking Parisian style. They picnic in an awesomely no fuss way. You simply stop by the store and grab a baguette, lunch meat, cheese, fruit, pastries and wine (or in our case, a nice bottle of water).

Then you go find a beautiful place to picnic (very easy in Paris). You wash the fruit with your bottled water, tear pieces of bread off with your hand and stuff meat and cheese in your fresh bread. Then you talk and laugh and think how nice it would be to do this every day of your life.

I plan on continuing to picnic Parisian style back in Southern California.
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"Rue Cler" is the perfect place to pick up picnic supplies. Absolutely beautiful.

We just happened to see on Facebook that my cousin Wendy (Blue Lily Photography) and her two adorable children were in Paris for some photo shoots. So we met up in Luxenbourg Gardens to....picnic of course. We had a great time eating and chatting and watching the couple in the background to Tai Chi for two solid hours. 

The beautiful Seine river in Paris.

This is how we got through some gates at the airport that weren't opening when we put our tickets in. My studly husband jumped over, lifted all of our luggage over, helped me over and then hopped back up with another man to assist some older German women over as well. It was quite a hilarious little adventure.

We love going to church whenever we travel. It is so cool to see the church in different parts of the world. No matter where we go, it is still the same true church.

Picnicking in the Louire Valley while on our way to see a castle.

What this picture doesn't show is the laptop we set up a while later to watch an episode of "Downton Abbey".  And no joke, that was HIS idea. I know.....

A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

There are flower stores EVERYWHERE you turn in Paris. I will miss that so much.

Hands down, my favorite activity was riding these bikes all over Paris. We've had so many adventures on these awesome little bikes. We even biked home from church on them while I tried to hold my skirt down hoping to not traumatize any Parisians walking by.