8-29-2011

We made it and we're alive. We even managed to make it though customs, and I stumbled though enough broken-highschool-level-French to get us through the train station to our hotel (this is a much bigger deal than I care to explain). More importantly, our hotel is above a boulangerie which bakes croissants and pain au chocolat. I would be totally fine with spending all my moneys on pasteries.

After carbing up, we were generously tour guided around by Nicole's relatives. I though it would be mostly rude to shove a camera in their faces though, so I shoved my camera in stranger's and local dog's faces instead. Walking along the Seine is supposed to be romantical. That's not New York in the background. Paris has a smaller Statue of Liberty replica (or Statue of Anarchy) like the one in New York. Paris also has a larger replica of the Eiffel Tower like the one in Las Vegas. I was interested to see that these people live in tents along the river. I was also interested to see this woman at all.

Beyond showing us where not to get robbed, Nicole's family also was nice enough to cook us a real French meal for dinner. This is Raclette. It's named after a type of cheese and is delicious. You can read about it on Wikipedia. This is wine. That's on Wikipedia too.

8-28-2011

Nicole and I like French things. Like French toast and French fries. It's only logical then that we should wait around in an airport for airplanes, so we can get on one and fly to France. Actually, it took more than just one plane and a very very long time. It took all day and all night and past bedtime.

8-27-2011

Sienna says that we can't go anywhere without our bags.

8-26-2011

8-25-2011

Panic! Chaos!! Call the S.W.A.T. team!!! It's been four years and Nicole hasn't gotten rid of me yet. To celebrate, Nicole got me a new car, and I got her fancy drinks and a ton of food. No, seriously...so much food. Enough food that they made their own secret society. This is the fanciest, most expensive corndog ever. We didn't like it nearly as much as this crème brûlée. Happy bananaversary, Nicole!

8-24-2011

This is exactly what it looks like, and I don't care and I'm not sorry. It was amazing. I'm not sorry for taking this picture of this guy either because he looks amazing.

8-23-2011

It's exciting to me that these still exist in the world. I'll be even more excited to see what comes back.

8-22-2011

So a while ago, Nicole and I got a hummingbird feeder. I've tried a few times, but never had any luck getting pictures of the quick little guys. I must have been extra bored, because I actually sat and waited there long enough to get some pictures of their dinner time tonight.

Speaking of dinner time, I'm making funny faces in my kitchen again. Honestly, that can mean any number of things, but in this case it means I'm being stupid and eating my peppers raw again. After all the time and work I went though to grow fresh ones, I feel like it's important to try them like this to really experience the experience. Nicole has no desire to do this, so I "cooked" again too. These are not carrots. This is what I made for dinner.

8-21-2011

With all my focus on cameras this weekend, I figured it would only be right to break out one of my favorites and shoot some real film. Hopefully I'll update this post when I get things developed. Until then, you can look at this and think about all the tacos I've been eating every meal for the past three days

So I got my film back and I'm really excited about it. I don't normally do this, but I'm going to post all of the shots (including me making dumb faces) because 1) I like how they came out, and 2) they were expensive to develop.

Kodak Ektachrome 100, over exposed at ~50 and cross processed:
Train
I have no idea what this end to end said
Confetti
Taco Time
People
Yo, girl
Legal wallz
Poser graffiti
Leica
Graffiti girlfriend chairs
R.I.P.
Polaroid

Kodak Ektachrome 200, over exposed at ~100 and cross processed:
Model face
Shadow
More shadow
Yo, girl
Coloring wall
Who tied me here?
Watching you watching people
It's true
Yo, girl
Model face
Urban Oufitters model face
Big homie, painting on a tiny train

8-20-2011

It's pretty obvious that I'm really into taking pictures and cameras. I'm so into cameras that I draw giant cameras as big as buildings. Great big fancy cameras.

8-19-2011

It's the time of year again when I hangout in strange places to eat lots of Mexican food and color on things. I fashioned myself an art spear to protect myself from heartburn.

8-18-2011

I know I post about my peppers too much. I don't care. This is very exciting for me.

8-17-2011

I've hardly been drinking at all recently, but when I do drink I'm definitely not stirring my olives all bummed out and depressed about it. Tonight, I got to see two people named Mark(c) that I used to see every single day but hardly get to see anymore. This is Mark and this is The Devil of Fun. Ol' Glazey Eyes was there too.

8-16-2011

A mandatory day off from running means I need to do something fun to distract myself from wanting to be outside. What's more fun and distracting from doing something healthy than stuffing my face with pizza and pasta? At least these were both exciting and mushroom-themed foods. The pasta had locally harvested chantrelle mushrooms, and the pizza had truffle oil. I thought about running at dinner, so I had to get something else unhealthy and distracting. There was nothing mushroom related in the crème brûlée .