Saturday, July 20, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Picnic by the Seine
It's been so nice, we went out for a picnic lunch in a park by the Seine, right across the street from our building.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Mont Saint Michel, let's talk about food first.
I sacrificed some lab time to take a cool day trip with Joe! We went out to Mont Saint Michel, which is a pretty magical looking place.
It was windy and cold
First thing we did was eat. I liked the copper pots for decor.
My first choice was "not possible" apparently, I wanted a pot of moules (mussels) since it's on my To Eat list. Yet the people at the next table got them!! :( I settled for fish soup which was good.
I had the salmon with beurre blanc whih was amazing. I also really enjoyed Joe's traditional Normandy chicken stew (not pictured).
My dessert totally beat his. Crepe with salted caramel and vanilla ice cream.
It was windy and cold
First thing we did was eat. I liked the copper pots for decor.
My first choice was "not possible" apparently, I wanted a pot of moules (mussels) since it's on my To Eat list. Yet the people at the next table got them!! :( I settled for fish soup which was good.
I had the salmon with beurre blanc whih was amazing. I also really enjoyed Joe's traditional Normandy chicken stew (not pictured).
My dessert totally beat his. Crepe with salted caramel and vanilla ice cream.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Things outside my window
The day before or the day before the day before Bastille weekend, 50 some planes and helicopters must have flown by my office window. Not all at once, they would come in clumps of 3-10 in interesting formations. Most of them were smallish planes tailed by a flying wedge of what looked like fighter jets. I still have no idea what it was for, maybe practicing for Bastille day?
On my way to work one day, there was a lot of smoke over the Seine near the lab. The nearby bridge was covered in ambulances and firetrucks. From my office window, I could see the source of all the smoke. Later I saw this article, apparently it was the Hotel Lambert and it was on fire and some art was destroyed :(
Sorry, this wasn't one of the more interesting groups.
On my way to work one day, there was a lot of smoke over the Seine near the lab. The nearby bridge was covered in ambulances and firetrucks. From my office window, I could see the source of all the smoke. Later I saw this article, apparently it was the Hotel Lambert and it was on fire and some art was destroyed :(
Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Eiffel tower by night
We didn't time it very well, but we made it up to the top of the Eiffel tower. We spent some time in the line to get your bag checked, then in the line to get tickets, then in the line for the first elevator. While waiting for the second elevator to get to the top, the tower started sparkling!
View from the top!
In keeping with the theme of the evening, there was a line for the elevator to get back to the lower level and another line for the elevator to get back to the ground.
View from the top!
In keeping with the theme of the evening, there was a line for the elevator to get back to the lower level and another line for the elevator to get back to the ground.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Tinn's here!
(Sorry, I've been neglecting the blog, things have been a little crazy since Grenoble. aka, the entire month of July I guess.)
Right after Joe and I returned from Grenoble, Tinn arrived!
For dinner, I got "chitterlings." It was a perfectly innocent looking sausage.
The insides looked like this which made me a bit iffy. I couldn't help but wonder what I was eating the whole time in a worrying way. Chitterlings sounded really familiar in the way that sweetbreads sounds like delicious bread but are actually various kind of glands. It tasted fine, it had the consistency of deli meat stuffed in a sausage casing. (I looked it up later. Yep, intestines.)
We walked around Montmarte and got a variety of les macarons.
We also went to the Louvre. The line was longer than ever.
It was cool recognizing places in paintings, like the Rialto Bridge in Venice!
I can't believe I missed this the previous two times I was here.
Right after Joe and I returned from Grenoble, Tinn arrived!
For dinner, I got "chitterlings." It was a perfectly innocent looking sausage.
The insides looked like this which made me a bit iffy. I couldn't help but wonder what I was eating the whole time in a worrying way. Chitterlings sounded really familiar in the way that sweetbreads sounds like delicious bread but are actually various kind of glands. It tasted fine, it had the consistency of deli meat stuffed in a sausage casing. (I looked it up later. Yep, intestines.)
We walked around Montmarte and got a variety of les macarons.
We also went to the Louvre. The line was longer than ever.
It was cool recognizing places in paintings, like the Rialto Bridge in Venice!
I can't believe I missed this the previous two times I was here.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Grenoble (Days 3 and 4)
Here's me and my poster! I didn't realize it was supposed to in the portrait orientation...
At the end of a very long but exciting first day, we all took a coach bus to Chateau du Mollard for dinner.
I forgot to take a picture of the chateau before it got dark... They hired an illusionist for the night!!! I think I knew how to do most of his tricks, sorry, illusions, which actually ruined the fun for me...
Salad course
Main course was guinea fowl, asparagus, and polenta with a really tasty balsamic reduction.
Cheese course. Thank goodness for lactase pills.
Dessert was ice cream, macaron, and what seemed to be a little baby persimmon.
I was exhausted after the first day! I had an abbreviated second day since I had to leave before the end of the workshop, but I did make a useful contact with one of the professors there! It was also awesome meeting and hanging out with my fellow fellows.
The French countryside is really pretty. We rode first class back to Paris which was spacious.
At the end of a very long but exciting first day, we all took a coach bus to Chateau du Mollard for dinner.
I forgot to take a picture of the chateau before it got dark... They hired an illusionist for the night!!! I think I knew how to do most of his tricks, sorry, illusions, which actually ruined the fun for me...
It was pretty fancy.
Salad course
Main course was guinea fowl, asparagus, and polenta with a really tasty balsamic reduction.
Cheese course. Thank goodness for lactase pills.
Dessert was ice cream, macaron, and what seemed to be a little baby persimmon.
I was exhausted after the first day! I had an abbreviated second day since I had to leave before the end of the workshop, but I did make a useful contact with one of the professors there! It was also awesome meeting and hanging out with my fellow fellows.
The French countryside is really pretty. We rode first class back to Paris which was spacious.
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