Saturday, June 20, 2009

Disneyland Paris

Before we went we purchased tickets to Disneyland. The weather tried to stop us but we weren't about to let a little monsoon keep us from having fun. Turns out the lines to everything are a lot shorter during a downpour. (Who knew)



At the entrance, notice all the umbrellas and ponchos.

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The castle, the whole hold your arm out picture doesn't work so well with umbrellas.


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Suzanne's favorite, its a small world after all...



Small would dancers, you knew she would have a picture of dancers.



The Mickey parade near the end of the day



Ah the castle, the rain did let up a little later in the day. This was a really fun experience.

Friday, June 19, 2009

We'll Always Have Paris

A quick stop in Paris on our way back to Nigeria. We had a really wonderful time there. We had a nice clean hotel and the people were very friendly the whole time we were there.



No trip to Paris would be complete without the Eiffel Tower. It is quite spectacular, and when it gets dark out and it is all lit up is very stunning.



We had pizza at a very good very small eatery. You see how small and how close the table are, they had to pull the table out just for Suzanne to be able to get in.



Walking around I found a wall that said Paris on it so I took my picture next to it. I know, I'm a dork, but Suzanne loves me anyway!



Notre Dame de Paris. We discovered an easier way to hold your arm out and take a picture. If you set the timer on the camera then you can push the snap button and then position the camera however you want without having to position your hand where you can reach the snap button. I'm very fascinated by this discovery.



We asked a nice lady to take our picture with the Notre Dame in the background. Can you see it? It is off to the left behind the tree.



Suzanne is so cute in all the pictures!!!



Walking down one of the main streets in Paris.



This is the big Arc de Triomphe that is the same little arch in the previous picture. We walked a long way.



The Seine river, this is the place where Isadora Duncan's children were in an accident and fell off the bridge and drowned. (See Suzanne you only thought that I wasn't listening ;)



We didn't have time for the Louvre, but we did get a chance to go to the Musee d'Orsay where they have impressionist art by the likes of Van Gogh and Degas. Look at me I'm all artsy now
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One of the ballerina dancers. Suzanne likes these painting (I wonder why?)


Dinner the second night there was fondue, we really like fondue. We even tried som escargot, Suzanne even ate one.


Dinner in the Latin Quarter of France, we had a really nice couple of days.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Corpus For 2 Days

I was able to go to Corpus for a couple of days, Suzanne was busy and couldn't make it :(

The main event for our time there was an evening of domino's.


There were 5 of us so we drew up a round robin bracket so everyone got to play with everyone else, how PC we are :) This is a picture of us trying to figure out how this should work.



Some burgers and sausages were quite delicious.



I was supposed to spend a whole day with Ram, until he had to have his stupid knee surgery boo. I did go by and see him in the hospital after, he looked good, sounded good, I hope he starts feeling better soon.



Playing domino's ahhh, much fun!

Nigeria Again

So we are back in Nigeria again. We had a wonderful trip. I will post pictures soon.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

In Paris

So we made it to our hotel in Paris. We will blog more later. The keyboard here has a lot of the letters in the wrong place, it makes it weird to type. Talk to yall soon.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Wine Time

Back in Houston after a mere 6 months away. We got the opportunity to go to a little wine bar for a wine tasting, I swear we were only "tasting."



The beginning of the night, not much tasting done yet. A hair cut and a shave and Dave looks almost like a respectable human being again.



As the night wore on we "tasted" a few more! We had a really good time and expect to go back again.



Closer to the end of the night...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Suzanne and Jack

Suzanne was able to spend a few hours in Austin with Rebecca, Jeremy, Sydney and their new addition to their family Jack.



I thought this was a really cute picture.