Saturday, July 7
The weather was on and off, so we did chores in the morning to get them out of the way for the weekend. When the afternoon rolled around we decided to go into Paris to visit the English bookstore W.H. Smith.
The shop was much like a smaller version of Borders, filled with giddy English speakers happy to get their hands on some familiar reading material. Dave and I each bought a book, which were predictably expensive, and I reserved a copy of the new Harry Potter book. I hope it has an unique (Wally: "an unique", hah!) European cover that I can show off when I go back to the states.
W.H. Smith is located on the popular rue Rivoli right alongside the Tuileries gardens, so we walked along the rue and stopped for drinks at a local cafe.
From our seats on the terrasse of the cafe we could see that there was a carnival in the Tuileries garden. So after we'd had our fill of people watching we walked over to the gardens to check it out.
I guess carnivals are much the same in any country, but this one seemed cleaner and safer than the travel carnivals back home. There were more adults than children, which was odd to me, and there were a lot more shooting games then there would be in States. Which is ironic, isn't it?Anyway, we watched a group of deliriously happy people on these swings and decided we wanted to try it. I honestly don't remember going on swings like these since I was a kid on a family vacation to Holland, Michigan.
It was the best 3 euros I'd spent in a long time. We whizzed around in circles, giggling and screaming with the others. I felt like the tips of my shoes were going to brush the tops of the well-groomed trees of the gardens. David said he felt like he was going to smack into the ticket booth.Sunday, July 8
Weather.com's promise of a nice weekend went sour with even more rain and I sulked around the apartment for a while before deciding that we needed a desk lamp right away. David tried every persuasion in the book to talk me out of it but finally conceded to go to IKEA with me. We also bought large frames for some of our favorite photos and a little plant. I love the plant and now I want to fill the apartment with cat-friendly (or rather, cat-proof) flora.
ok, i was wrong about the "adjective" part.... but i was right about the "a unique", just the wrong reason. see below:
ReplyDeleteAn goes before all words that begin with a vowel with two exceptions: When u makes the same sound as the y in you, or o makes the same sound as w in won, then a is used.
a union
a united front
a unicorn
a used napkin
a U.S. ship
a one-legged man
And the exception for "a" is it goes before all constantants except an unsounded H - ex:an honest, an honorable, etc.
Well now we have proof that I can't properly speak English, either.
ReplyDelete