Ah, Paris!

A few weeks before we moved to Amsterdam, we had dinner in Portland with two other soon-to-be-expat couples, Sara & Aaron and Chris & Casie.  Like us, Sara & Aaron moved to Amsterdam, while Chris & Casie have been enjoying life in London.  Anyway, at that dinner in Portland we had many bottles of wine and decided that we should all meet again for dinner a year later in Paris to celebrate a year abroad... and so we did.  

The weekend weather was incredible and we took advantage of it by mostly staying outdoors. We headed back to Montmartre to find some art and we were happily surprised to find a food and wine festival taking place.  It was a gorgeous day spent sipping wine and tasting various honey, sausage and cheese. After a while, we decided to take in a little art and headed to the Musée Rodin, where we walked through the sculpture garden and Erika took the briefest of naps before we were shooed out at closing time.  Here's Rodin's The Thinker and a stalkerific shot of Erika (taking stalker candid photos of Erika is one of Rob's new hobbies with the new camera. He would have put up more to prove it, but Erika's eating a sandwich in most of them -the same sandwich-Erika doesn't go all around Paris eating sandwiches- and pictures of someone eating aren't always very flattering, or so he's been told).

On Saturday night we had an amazing dinner in a small French restaurant just off of Pont Neuf and then went out for a few more drinks.  

On Sunday we remained outdoors on a nice bike tour of the city, including lunch in the Jardin des Tuileries (the garden in front of the Louvre).  

It was an absolutely lovely weekend (even carpooling with a 10 month old wasn't too bad) and a very cool way to celebrate our first year in Amsterdam.