We packed our bags and loaded up our car for a trip to Mont St Michel, Normandie and Giverny.
It was so fun to get outside of Paris and see the French countryside! It was beautiful! I especially loved seeing all the old homes and barns that have been there a couple of hundred years and the cows and sheep grazing on the hillside.
We stopped at a little restaurant for lunch and ordered from an all French menu… that was interesting. It was a little better than just closing your eyes and pointing, but not much. It was a fun surprise to see how close our food was to what we thought we had ordered! At this pit stop Ryan stopped in at an electronic store and once again, as much as I think he is a little excessive and obsessed with gadgets, the GPS he came out with has been worth its weight in gold!! –It saves all of the arguing over going left and right. We just sit back, look out the window and wait for the cute little British voice to tell us when to turn. (There is an American English setting too, but in France we prefer the directions from the voice of the British gal.)
So the pictures of Mont St Michel speak for themselves. Let me just say it was spectacular. I’d like to meet the hard working crew who built it. The architect was just fulfilling a childhood dream of secret passageways. Think Hogwarts School from Harry Potter without any of the scary stuff and that is close to what this Abbey is like. In a few of the chapels they had musicians playing. It was really cool. I was surprised how you couldn’t hear them until you were a few feet upon entering the door. On the very top chapel with a girl playing the harp (the chapel reminded me of the chapel in the Sound of Music where they are hiding from the police) opened onto a huge patio 200-300 feet above the ground. Outside there were seagulls just playing on the air currents, hanging out and soaring to the music. The view was awesome!
That evening we stayed in a little bed and breakfast. It was kind of what I expected quaint little rooms with shared bathroom in the hall. Ryan said his thoughts of a romantic B&B were slashed when I made us each sleep with one of the girls because of my paranoia not knowing who is down the hall.
It was so fun to get outside of Paris and see the French countryside! It was beautiful! I especially loved seeing all the old homes and barns that have been there a couple of hundred years and the cows and sheep grazing on the hillside.
We stopped at a little restaurant for lunch and ordered from an all French menu… that was interesting. It was a little better than just closing your eyes and pointing, but not much. It was a fun surprise to see how close our food was to what we thought we had ordered! At this pit stop Ryan stopped in at an electronic store and once again, as much as I think he is a little excessive and obsessed with gadgets, the GPS he came out with has been worth its weight in gold!! –It saves all of the arguing over going left and right. We just sit back, look out the window and wait for the cute little British voice to tell us when to turn. (There is an American English setting too, but in France we prefer the directions from the voice of the British gal.)
So the pictures of Mont St Michel speak for themselves. Let me just say it was spectacular. I’d like to meet the hard working crew who built it. The architect was just fulfilling a childhood dream of secret passageways. Think Hogwarts School from Harry Potter without any of the scary stuff and that is close to what this Abbey is like. In a few of the chapels they had musicians playing. It was really cool. I was surprised how you couldn’t hear them until you were a few feet upon entering the door. On the very top chapel with a girl playing the harp (the chapel reminded me of the chapel in the Sound of Music where they are hiding from the police) opened onto a huge patio 200-300 feet above the ground. Outside there were seagulls just playing on the air currents, hanging out and soaring to the music. The view was awesome!
That evening we stayed in a little bed and breakfast. It was kind of what I expected quaint little rooms with shared bathroom in the hall. Ryan said his thoughts of a romantic B&B were slashed when I made us each sleep with one of the girls because of my paranoia not knowing who is down the hall.
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