Hello all,
Today we decided to journey off to the city of Toulouse for the day. And our big adventure started off at the local big mall! Yippee…well, it wasn’t that big and they had quite a few stores I recognized – Fruits & Passion, Mexx, Sephora and a few I didn’t of course – petite boys, carfour, h & m (some store for Madonna’s clothes, I didn’t even know she was doing that). After spending 10 Euros on soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce and extra for a bit of pizza we took off to the nearest Office Depot. Yep, that’s right we’re really immersed in the French culture now. And it gets better because after that we went to McDonalds! Vive le France! Actually, we went to McDonalds to use the washroom and meet up with Monique (Diane’s sister). The good thing about being there was that the kids were trying to communicate in French to the other children in the play area so hooray for McDonald’s play area, it’s helping my kiddies speak more French.
Monique had the brilliant idea of going to an outdoor park that was not too far from her house and you can see from the photos that it was a really nice day and the park was fantastic. It had a skate park a dirt bike track, which all the kids actually ran up and down on and of course some play equipment. Liam and Emma burned off a lot of energy and we all had some fun.
After stopping for a drink at Monique’s house we then went back to our home for a quick bite to eat and then bed (for some of us). By that time it was actually 2030 hours (8:30pm) which I can’t believe we are eating this late but apparently that is the norm over here.
Anyway, great day today and I hope everyone reading this had a great day too.
Guys, I would think you are searching for american stores… Don’t you have enough on them overe here? 🙂 Have you been to the local bakery? Is their baguette different than here? How about their croissant? I know you have found wine. Or should I say wine found you out of desperation? LOL
Anyway, keep enjoying the trip and keep sending these nice reports.
Comment by klaus — April 5, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
The park is beautiful and you guys look awesome. Great shots of the kids!
Comment by off2europe2 — April 5, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Did you like H&M? Is it a department store?
Comment by off2europe2 — April 5, 2007 @ 10:03 pm
We haven’t been to the local bakery as we still have a lot of bread from the initial supply that my aunt Monique purchased for us the day we arrived. There is a bakery in Giroussens, however, about 800 metres from our home here so we’ll be visiting there soon.
We’ve been eating croissants in the morning and those are very tasty..I think I will have to go get one now.
Comment by admin — April 6, 2007 @ 1:18 am
H&M isn’t quite a department store but its a large clothing store. I didn’t get a chance to go inside but it looked fancy and expensive from the outside.
Comment by marissa — April 6, 2007 @ 3:35 am
OMG H&M is GOLD!!! Sorry, I’m just really excited cause H&M is finally coming to Canada, and even though it might look expensive from the outside, it’s actually super cheap inside. Madonna’s new line for them is totally selling out cause it’s amazing and really really cheap. So if you want to buy cheap stylish clothes, H&M is totally the place to go 😛 Oh, and some Europeans call it eurotrash, but it’s not as eurotrash-y as Zara. Sorry, had to throw my shopping two cents in 😛 And I’m totally thought Office Depot would have a french-y sounding name, like, Depot de Bureau or something…….
Comment by Sarah — April 6, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
My other half says H&M is great and cheap, too… She saw it last year.
Sarah, Office Depot probably has a french name in Quebec, but not in France 🙂 LOL
Comment by klaus — April 6, 2007 @ 1:36 pm