Two Months of Catch Up

Where have the last two months gone???  Well, actually, I can answer that question.  A brief recap:

At the end of August Kerry and I (and the dogs) celebrated two years of marriage with a weekend in Paris.  We started off the weekend with tickets to the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret.  I thought because we were seeing the early show (7:00 PM instead of 11:00 PM) that it wouldn't be topless, but I guess that isn't how it works around here.  The show was entertaining though, a good mix of mediocre dancing and amazing cosutmes interspersed with human tricks, magic acts, and the like, and ending with an authentic French can can dance.

 

Saturday morning we took the dogs for a lazy walk to the Eiffel Tower.  I've seen it a dozen times now, but I never seem to tire of it.  We then spent the bulk of the day browsing the giant department stores for maternity clothes.  The maternity clothes selection in Montpellier is pathetic, so we took advantage of big city offerings and bought a couple of nice things that don't come with a big tag that says "Keep Away From Fire".  It's depressing enough to buy clothes with so much extra room in them knowing before too much longer your body is going to fill them out, so it helps a little to at least have a few nice things to feel good in.

Sunday we took the train back to Montpellier.  You can see who runs the show in the family.

"You stand while I nap in your seat."

A few days after we returned from Paris, Kerry had a surprise visitor from Houston.  Everything lately had been about pregnancy and the baby, and Kerry was putting in a lot of extra hours at the office, so I was glad for him to have a break from it all and enjoy some time with a good friend.

Welcome to France Erick!

Less than a week after Erick's visit, we were off on our last big vacation before baby comes!  I had been totally worn out by pregnancy and was sick of the summer heat, which only made pregnancy sickness worse (remember we don't have air conditioning).  So we settled on a two week cruise through the Baltic and North Seas to escape the heat and pack in a lot of sites without doing much leg work.  I'll be posting more about this later, so for now I will just say that it was exactly the break we needed from French life, and we had a wonderful, albeit unusual vacation.

Then, with only three days back in France to settle in post vacation, we had another visitor from home, my momma!!  After two weeks of her own trek through Munich and Amsterdam, she headed south for a week and half on the sunny Mediterranean coast, and we wrapped it up with a long weekend in Paris.

And that brings us to October!  Believe it or not, all of that has filled the last two months to the brim.  After a very quiet and lazy summer, it's been nice to get moving again, and time sure is flying!  I can't believe we are already 5 months into this pregnancy, and that holidays are just around the corner.  And speaking of the pregnancy... our last ultrasound brought some exciting information - watch out for Friday's post to find out if Baby Huguet will be sporting pink or blue come February!