France and Germany Assortments

Again with the order problems.  Honestly, once I get things figured out, it sakes things up again.  Quite a nuisance.

This is in Versailles.  The gardens were lovely, especially with the spring colours of the flowers and the fall colours of the trees behind them.
This was our lunch in Versailles: some lovely pastries and things we got in a bakery there.  There was an apricot tart, a pistachio cookie, a crepe pie thingy, and something like bignets, called bugnets.
Well, I had to go there.  It's kind of a strange area, and the building is not nearly as cool as the Moulin Rouge in the movie Moulin Rouge.  Actually it's rather tacky.  But it was cool to go anyway.
Here's my lovely sister on the river Seine.

It's always Christmas in Germany!  This is the famous Christmas store in Rothenberg, which was loads of fun.
Here are the three Garber kids in Rothenberg.
This was the amazingly lovely breakfast spread we were provided at the Garber home in Geisenfeld.  Yummy!
Paris...obviously.  I don't know of another building that really looks like that one in the background.  This was at Place de la Concorde, where the main guillotine used to be. Now they have an Egyptian obelisk.  Which...totally makes sense.

And now, to close up that post.  I must mention the fabulous puppet show we saw in Rothenberg.  The Garbers had seen it years ago, and it had been very cute.  Not a stupid puppet show for four year olds, but a charming puppet show that all ages could enjoy.  So we interrupted our conversation one night and rushed to see this remarkable show.  What we saw were chickens laying eggs, the Menamena song (does that even have a proper spelling?), a creepy yodeler, and a highly inappropriate hurdy-gurdy song at the end.  About halfway through we just started laughing.  And couldn't compose ourselves.  It was quite possibly the worst thing I've ever seen!  And of course, I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.  Those make the best stories!  Gotta keep life interesting somehow, right?  Of course, now when I see a little doll with blonde braids that looks like the yodeler, I feel slightly irrational terror, but whaddaya do?  And the birds with the egg...hee hee hee... Anyway...that's all I suppose.

Did ew know...?

Men should not have long blonde braids and dresses.  Ever.

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