France

d-day | remembering a cold day in december (a few days late)

9.6.14


so one time my wonderful aunt and uncle visited us for christmas before we left france. 

and they wanted to visit normandy, so we packed up on christmas eve at the crack of dawn and drove for a while, in a tiny french car.
after a pitstop at a french gas station, which is an interesting thing, and arming ourselves with oreos and chocolate milk, we were ready to face the bitter weather.





i have to say that there is something incredibly sobering about standing out on that beach and thinking about all the lives that were lost, fighting for what they believed in.










when you walk over the hill and turn the corner to see the cemetery, your heart just skips a beat. 
thousands and thousands of crosses, row and row after row.





"to these we owe the high resolve that the cause for which they died shall live"

after seeing normandy, i don't think i can ever think or look at the things that happened there quite the same as i did before.  
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by the way, i do have a little bit of an excuse for this being a couple days late, internet was making flowing molasses look like lighting and i was incredibly busy, so yeah…
but it feels amazing to be able to post good, nice pics about something, even if it has nothing to do with burkina or where i am now.
it's kinda crazy to think about how many places i have been in just the past 7 months...

Family

Les Marchés de Noël

28.11.13

//le grande palais//

//ice skating smiles//

//trying to keep warm//



//Arc de Triumph//

//Ferris wheel downtown//

//Christmas ornaments//

//fresh salmon smoking//

//mounds of chocolate meringue thingys//

//yummy, chocolate covered meringue thingy that I forget the name of//

//fresh lavender//

//mountains of chocolate//

//gaufre//

//sisters, sisters...//


//pretty Christmas lights in downtown//

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//in all, it was a lovely, chilly Saturday night with my family//