Dave and I have returned from Porto and I will do a whole blog post on the trip, but as a prelude to that, I thought I’d share this first. When my brother and I were little, my parents took us to a theme park or the fair. I can’t remember exactly. It might have […]
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Dave has been on Spring Break this week, but since his school doesn’t provide a “dead week” prior to finals, we’ve used most of the week as time for him to actually get some studying done. I still can’t believe they don’t give more time for such things. Even his classmates from other countries were […]
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Warning! You should probably get comfortable. This turned out WAY longer than anticipated. At what seemed like the crack of dawn on Black Friday, Dave and I got ready for shopping our impromptu trip to Spain. Our tickets said “registration” was at 8am and the bus station was about 20 minutes away by tram, so […]
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A good day… I had a luncheon with a group of Ex-Pat bloggers from all over France today. A luncheon that happened to take place in Montpellier, around the corner from our house (of which I’m still working on photos for the blog). I had so much fun…so so much fun. Chatting away endlessly with […]
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All of my New Orleans friends have awesome photos of Mardi Gras posted on Facebook. I looked at them longingly, thinking of how awesome it was when I went in 2010, right before I moved home. Dave received the following email and thought of me: He promptly made reservations when he saw me light up […]
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…I’ve been here for years.” — LL Cool J. Wise, yet oddly appropriate words. It’s no secret that upon finishing up school, I moved back to Napa from San Diego and started working in the wine business. And now, after a year hiatus, I’m back in it. This time on the sales side and working […]
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It has been made apparent to me that the one thing that New Orleans is lacking is quality Mexican food. And by quality, I mean cheap, greasy, they-probably-don’t-use-vegetables Mexican food. I have had a couple of places in the Boot that are pretty good but there is nothing like Taqueria Rosita. So in response to […]
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I think I had the best meal since I moved to Louisiana the other night. It was phenomenal. Like, bring-on-the-elastic-waisted-pants phenomenal. A friend of mine from home was out here on business this week and we had a chance to grab dinner. Because neither of us knew where to go and we were both in […]
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