Memories

Michelle and I went to Purple Moon, a bead store in Grayslake, yesterday to buy clasps and additional beads to create our memory bracelts. Here's mine, with the Eiffel Tower and "P" charms I bought in Paris.



Click on the image above to see a picture of the entire bracelet.

P.S. Michelle and Jo solved the scarf dilema. Jo knew an international ed student who's visiting here from France. She was able to translate the parts I couldn't decipher with Babelfish. Michelle tested it out last night, and while we're not exactly sure if it's right, it's close enough to get the job done.

For those of you interested...the knitting store used a scarf pattern featured in an issue of Marie Claire Idees to make the kits we purchased. Unfortunately we're not sure which issue it was in and, even if we did, the magazine is only published in French anyway.

La longue echarpe cravte

Translating the scarf kit I purchased from the knitting store in Paris is much more difficult than I had anticipated. I thought I'd be able to come home and google my way to a lovely new scarf in no time. As it turns out, the number of French women who are fluent in English, happen to be knitters who read Marie Claire Idees, and document their work online seems to be just about zero.

I suppose I'll have to embark on this journey armed with babelfish, a fading memory of the actual design, and relatively no knitting experience under my belt (with the exception of a still half finished scarf resting comfortably in my drawer of crafting projects that time forgot).

I'll be sure to take pictures of the monstrosity as soon as it's complete.

Online Photo Album

I've started posting some of our pictures to flickr.com. You can visit our album at http://www.flickr.com/photos/parispals/.

Hope you enjoy!

P.S. My shoes still have Paris dust on them and every time I see them it makes me smile (several of the sites we visited didn't have any ground cover and by the end of the day we were covered head to toe in dust and sweat. Michelle lovingly referred to it as being 'smarmy').

Last day post and some more pictures

I finally got my last day in Paris entry posted. I also added some pictures to the earlier entries(there is one of the famous David hidden in there too). I still have tons and tons to sift through so check back over the next few days for more updates. Michelle will be adding her pictures soon too.