tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88335525148234566112024-02-07T17:40:27.131-08:00E a t i n g f o r 3or <br>
How our twins came to be our PillOffspringKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-32272961285960606022020-02-14T10:30:00.001-08:002020-02-14T10:32:56.067-08:00Benicia... I Just Met a Town Named Benicia...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
When I told most people that I went to Benicia over the weekend, the first thing they said was, “Where?” And then I excitedly told them how Benicia was the third state capital of California! (Mark: “Stop saying boring facts in a voice like they’re interesting.”)</div>
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Basically I was just planning our day around visiting a new tea place. The <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/camellia-tea-room-benicia?hrid=xFhPpoKZ6iffm21JmK1qvQ&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Camellia Tea Room</a> was lovely, housed in an 1897 building with beautifully wallpapered tin ceili<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ngs. (Mark: “Yay, more history.”) The kids cracked each other up with haughty expressions while doing “fancy pours” of lemonade from their teapots, which meant they held the pot up high above their glasses. Somehow we got through this without spills.</span></div>
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And while we didn’t enter the State Capitol (that would have been a whole $10 for the 4 of us and this was no Sacramento capitol building), we did pass by it on our walk through the historical downtown on our way to the waterfront. I have to say Benicia is really an overlooked, charming little town.</div>
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We made our way to the beach at Elan & Cove Streets to check out Benicia’s little known sea glass beach. (Most websites mention a different location but a few people said this spot was the true sea glass beach.) We descended some steps in between houses to a deserted little cove. The kids enjoyed playing in the water and climbing on the rocks, and when we looked closely we saw a little sea glass. Definitely more than I’d seen before at a beach, but still disappointing.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>She wrote "J <heart> M" in the sand for me (M = Mommy) and decorated it with sea glass. (This was before we found the true sea glass beach so there were only a few pieces of sea glass here.)</heart></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>This girl. She pushes my buttons but also so much of the time melts me.</i></span></td></tr>
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But then a family came down the stairs. They led us to the real sea glass beach - I just hadn’t followed the coast far enough to the west of the pier - and there we found another cove and it was FULL of sea glass. I have never seen a beach basically paved in sea glass before - it was pretty magical. Julia got to work beachcombing and oddly enough we took fewer pieces back here than from the other beach simply because there was so much it wasn’t special any more. It was nice just to enjoy it. For some reason James enjoyed picking up big handfuls of sea glass and dumping it into the water to be “cleaned.”</div>
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Then after a full day of Benicia-ing we were tired and drove to Berkeley to visit our friends, Kelsi and Drew, and marvel at their 14 month twin girls and in Mark’s case, play hide-and-seek over and over again with their 3-year-old son who kept negotiating for more.</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-87044619955364135152019-05-31T11:18:00.000-07:002019-05-31T11:18:46.543-07:00Breakfast in Bed<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
The kids surprised me on Memorial Day with a belated Mother's Day breakfast in bed. (I'll say "surprised" even though Julia was interrogating me on how exactly I prepare my oatmeal the night before.) Mark was out swimming, so apart from him cutting a lovely rose from the front yard before he left, the kids prepared everything on their own.</div>
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James picked some strawberries in the backyard (I love that he put on the gardening gloves to do it just like me), and Julia pulled over a<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> chair and took down the heavy wood and glass tray (that we use for these occasions) from the top of the refrigerator. It's probably good I didn't see that part. They both cut four different kinds of fruits for me using a blunt table knife. (I would have let them use the good knives.)</span></div>
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When I got out of bed I found James at my door, blocking me in. He tried to distract me by throwing a ball for me to fetch in my room (uh, I'm good) and scratching my back (OK!). Then Julia lumbered down the hallway struggling to carry the heavy tray topped with two bowls of food, a tall glass of lemonade, and a vase.</div>
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They made me oatmeal with flaxseed, four fruits, walnuts, cinnamon, and jam, a four fruit salad (Julia zested some orange on top to make it fancy), and lemonade with two strawberries. Apparently they heated the oatmeal and then left it out for an hour, waiting for me to wake up.</div>
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They were very sweet and stayed with me while I ate.</div>
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<br />Upon viewing the kitchen afterwards I asked. "Um, what did you cut the fruit on?" Julia: "The cutting boards that were out." Me: "You mean the dirty ones?..."</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">could traumatize her but instead when she sees the bathroom she laughs. (She also gets </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James pranks my prank by changing it to read "The chamber<i>pot</i>...<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I put a few drops of food coloring in their bowls and then cover the drops with cereal. It </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">all looks as normal until I add milk. They’re no fools and know it’s food coloring. I’m </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">pretty sure Julia rolled her eyes and said, “Mom-mmmmmmmmeeeeeee!”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia looks at me with revulsion. (But she's kidding.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia's milk turns pink.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James's milk turns blue.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">James scurries about the house setting up his pranks. He puts socks on all the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">doorknobs, swaps the identical TV remotes into opposite rooms, puts the empty </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">egg carton in the fridge in the hopes someone will open it, and adds sunglasses </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to inanimate objects. He also decorates Julia’s dresser by hanging scissors and </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">necklaces from all the drawer pulls.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James's prank. He covered all the doorknobs with socks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extra egg carton in the fridge. (Yes, we go through a lot of eggs.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James added sunglasses to the remote.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James hung scissors, necklaces, and an egg carton from the pulls of Julia's dresser.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished product</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I take the cream out of one of James’s Oreos and replace it with toothpaste. When </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">James eats his cookie but doesn’t immediately notice a difference I ask if it tastes </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">okay. He asks, “Why?” and looks a little worried. I tell him what I did. “Should I spit </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">it out?” he asks. “I pretty much swallowed it.” I tell him not to worry about it and </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">give him another Oreo to make up for it. He notices right away that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">this</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> one smells</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">like mint. Oops! Gave him the wrong one before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later I give Julia her vanilla Oreo while James watches amused since now he’s in on the prank. She takes a tiny bite - not because she’s suspicious, that’s just now she eats - and immediately knows something’s off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">A week ago I bought fresh squeezed O.J. so the kids would be used to drinking it every day and not be suspicious when I pulled it out for them to drink for the first time on April Fool’s Day. Except tonight I replace the O.J. with water mixed with mac n cheese powder. Right away they realize it doesn’t taste right. To make up for it I of course replace it with the real O.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">After dinner I hear James talking loudly to his stuffed dogs “Wait, what are you doing?” “Goldie! No!” I come in and discover that his stuffed dogs had apparently all raided the costume box and are now wearing hats or wigs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">that. Flavors included spoiled milk, toothpaste, booger, rotten egg, moldy cheese, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I showed this to Julia and she said, "When you run out of hair dye it'll be grey ink."</span>Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-46390510851287532252018-10-02T15:26:00.001-07:002018-10-02T19:33:31.779-07:00Kids' Lunch Ideas<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Peanut butter and jelly*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Peanut butter, banana, and honey (I’ve also used a hot dog bun for this.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Turkey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Turkey and hummus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Turkey wrapped around a breadstick (Trader Joe’s boxed breadsticks)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Hummus and veggies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Egg salad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Chicken salad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Tuna</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Salami</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">BLT (made with turkey bacon but some turkey bacon has been inedible), served cold</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Yogurt (I do non-fat Greek yogurt with honey and a sprinkle of granola or non-fat strawberry with aforementioned granola sprinkle)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Hummus and selection of veggies (carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers) and pita or crackers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Cheese and crackers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Cold leftover omelet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Hard-boiled egg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Pasta salad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Skewers of fresh mozzarella balls and tomato chunks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Teriyaki tofu (sold in a package at Trader Joe’s and I just cut up)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Whole garbanzo beans, chopped up orange, mint (if you have), olive oil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-“Cracker dip” (mashed garbanzo beans, lemon juice, olive oil, salt) and serve with crackers*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Sushi using rice and a protein (salmon, chicken, tofu) or kappa maki with cucumber. Wrap with seaweed sheets they carry at the store (Nob Hill has). Cut one in half and roll it up, sealing the end with a little water. Do not cut or it’ll fall apart. Include soy sauce.</span><br />
<span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-<a href="https://www.averiecooks.com/tomato-mozzarella-and-basil-quinoa-salad/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre;">Quinoa salad with fresh mozzarella, tomato, and basil</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Julia loves this. We make it together for her lunch when we have more time. It’s her annual first school lunch) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="https://www.averiecooks.com/tomato-mozzarella-and-basil-quinoa-salad/">Quinoa salad with fresh mozzarella, tomato, and basil</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It may look like Ok-Mok (which is what we call it), but it’s really Ak-Mak.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Potstickers (can put soy sauce in small separate container or use a to-go packet)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Shu mai (Trader Joe’s with soy sauce)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Fried rice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Canned black beans and brown rice mixed together*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Leftover pasta (ravioli, gnocchi, mac n cheese)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Hot dog (bun outside of thermos)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Hot leftover egg (bread to make a sandwich outside of thermos)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trader Joe’s potstickers. Their shu mai is also a winner for kids’ lunches.</td></tr>
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<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/YUMBOX-Original-Green-Leakproof-Container/dp/B07B8WM2QB/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1537296474&sr=8-5&keywords=yumbox" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yumbox</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> (Keeps each compartment sealed so nothing travels to another compartment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Also has a small compartment for a dipping sauce.) Comes in lots of colors/variations.</span></div>
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<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/LOCK-Airtight-Container-Removable-29-41-oz/dp/B000SIPNME/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1537316512&sr=8-3&keywords=lock+n+lock+food+storage+containers+with+dividers" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lock N Lock</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> (4 compartments. Doesn’t leak or travel to other compartments.) Sometimes </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Without the removable compartments, Lock N Lock can also double as tupperware for home use.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">James eats a lot (he downs 1 ¼ sandwiches - sometimes more - while Julia eats less than a ½ sandwich), and his lunch doesn’t usually fit in either container any more. For him I stick his sandwich in a plastic bag and use a divided snack container for a veggie and fruit. I could buy the Yumbox that fits a whole sandwich but even that might be too small.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kudos to the </span><a href="http://onehungrymama.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One Hungry Mama</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> website and Facebook page. It has great kids’ lunch </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ideas (including the sushi one) and some good dinner recipes as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And then if you’re not tired enough after making lunch, include a </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/walletpuppy/lunch-box-jokes/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">lunch box joke</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. (Actually </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I like doing this. It breaks the monotony of making lunches.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first lunch box joke I ever gave the kids on the first day of first grade.</td></tr>
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Julia's been complaining that it isn't fair that we never get to do all the “fun” things in San Francisco that tourists do (and apparently "The Boxcar Children" do), like ride cable cars. So after a stop at the Cable Car Barn to see the actual cables pulled on giant wheels, we proceed to catch the Van Ness - California Street line (highly recommended since we had the half the car to ourselves). There's nothing like holding onto the cable car with one hand and leaning out with your arm outstretched to make you feel like you're flying down the hills. The kids loved it.</div>
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James waxes poetic on his final night of the trip about how his heart is being tugged in two by Paris. One wants to stay so he can run across the street and play in the rain, and the other wants to go home and play video games (notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardew_Valley">“Stardew Valley”</a>). He turns his thoughts into a poem. (James says he got the idea of his heart being tugged in two from a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Chicken-Squad-Misadventures-Weird-Shadows/dp/1534410279/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1522095838&sr=8-6&keywords=chicken+squad">"Chicken Squad"</a> book, but the illustrations are all James.)</div>
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(I considered cropping the poem about two-third<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">s down because I think the beginning is better. But sometimes it’s nice to have some insight into the mind of a 7-year-old, like about how he misses his favorite video game and his stuffed golden retrievers, Bowser and Goldie. “D. Dude” is what he calls the dalmatian “tattoo” on his arm. Also, if I cropped it early you’d miss out on the drawing of the smiling heart back together again at the end.)</span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-27091526180279298772018-03-21T11:12:00.000-07:002018-03-26T13:25:41.244-07:00Day 15: Au Revoir…<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m determined to make an Eiffel Tower run the morning before we check out, so I wake early, hike to three <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/yann-couvreur-paris?hrid=dk9ZxrGs4VhAKV-MExTq7g&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">bakeries</a> to get pastries for breakfast (the first two are still closed from Bastille Day. The French are pretty loose about things like shop hours.), and pack three suitcases. Mark questions whether we’ll have enough time for the Tower, and I’m like, “After all this you’d better believe it!”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia reads a book to James on the ridiculously tacky chair in our <a href="http://eatingfor3.blogspot.com/2018/02/day-91-when-you-stay-in-apartment-of.html">Air BnBrothel</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy, Mark, James, and Julia next to the Eiffel Tower and the Seine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What usually happens when Julia and James stand next to each other for a picture.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We fly home and we all wake up between 3 and 4:30 a.m. because of jet lag. The next day we go to dinner at <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/rangoon-ruby-palo-alto?hrid=vuZ3J73jUJJbKEPLbuzNMQ&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Burma Ruby</a>, which we’ve been craving, and although the kids are awake when we arrive, they fall asleep before the entrees (James, before the appetizers), and we end up carrying them passed out to the car. It looks like we tranquilized them for date night. James has no memory of even being there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark and Kathy in Charles de Gaulle Airport</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In retrospect, going out to dinner a few hours before bedtime the first night back might not have been such a good idea.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia’s favorite thing of the day: Eiffel Tower, sleeping in own bed (she’s not a fan of sleeping with James)</span><br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-56080524955640670732018-03-20T12:18:00.000-07:002018-03-21T11:21:52.513-07:00Day 14: Bastille Day, Schmastille Day<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re in Paris for Bastille Day (and were in London for the Fourth of July), which sounds great except things don’t work out so well. We try to walk across the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Alexandre_III">Pont Alexandre III</a>, regarded as the most ornate bridge in the city, but it’s closed due to either the earlier military parade down the Champ Elysees (of course Trump was also there) or the fireworks that evening. Next we find out that the area by the Eiffel Tower is closed and so is Trocadero, the best picture taking spot. (No “squishing the Eiffel Tower” photos for us.) I had planned to go here the previous night after our tour but forgot about it once the tour was cancelled, so we never did get to see the Eiffel Tower lit up at night. I’ll just assume this qualifies as another “Curse you, Donald Trump!”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and James run across some nets by the Seine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Eiffel Tower was at the end of the street where we had lunch. Sadly this is the closest we could get.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy holds her model of the Eiffel Tower... or does she?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy, James, Julia, and Mark in their requisite Eiffel Tower picture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James and Julia liked sliding down this bike ramp.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homeless Chewbacca has seen better days.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Art Nouveau building, 29 Rapp, from 1901. From my guidebook: "Art Nouveau to the extreme , with colourful glazed ceramic tiles and an extravagant doorway representing an inverted phallus inside a vulval arch." Of course.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />Standing at the outside edge of the roundabout encircling the Arc du Triomphe, we are blocked by the unbroken, eight-lane stream of traffic with no apparent way to get across. Mark wants to try to run across and repeatedly suggests that we “just <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger">Frogger</a> it.” (He later claims that he was joking.) Fortunately we eventually notice a staircase to a tunnel below the traffic and we take that instead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We take Metro to <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/jacques-genin-paris-2?hrid=BZM1fDiWsXenC03QonddZw&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Jacques Genin</a>, a high end chocolatier for a chocolate snack. Julia is unhappy at first (as you all know by now, she hates chocolate), but then gets free <a href="http://www.parispatisseries.com/2011/11/11/jacques-genin-pates-de-fruits/">pâtes de fruits</a> from our server. We drink our third hot chocolate of the trip and finish our snack at 7 p.m. And dinner is still to come after 9 p.m. - such is our schedule in Paris.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our dinner in Montmartre is a salad topped with fried potatoes, <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/le-relais-gascon-paris-2?hrid=fWBS9AkzCM4hT57PlEBkrg&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">our restaurant’s</a> specialty. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we went inside to buy some water and discovered a Joel Robuchon restaurant and a </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://eatingfor3.blogspot.com/2018/03/day-15-au-revoir.html">Day 15: Au Revoir...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We discover that our Behind the Scenes Eiffel Tower tour is cancelled (and can’t be rescheduled) because Trump and Macron will be there. (If you saw the<a href="http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/first-lady-melania-trump-wears-herve-pierre-dress-for-eiffel-tower-dinner-with-french-president-emmanuel-macron-and-his-wife-brigitte-10946421/"> picture of them eating dinner in the Eiffel Tower</a>, know that it was at the hour we were supposed to be there!)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We eat lunch at <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/pirouette-paris?hrid=Vfuj3hWcwCU8wNBED7mp_A&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Pirouette</a> and bunny-lover Julia is not at all happy to see that rabbit is on </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;">Center. The night before, Mark’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;">mom asked if we’d seen any mimes and I foolishly </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia wanted to hug me and never let go. Please tell me they'll always be like this.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We spend our day on the two islands in the middle of the Seine: Ile de la Cite and Ile Saint-Louis. We begin at Sainte Chapelle, a 13th century church with one after another after another of amazing floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows. It’s definitely the underappreciated gem of Ile de la Cite compared to the other more famous church.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James is awed by Sainte Chappelle.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next we arrive at Notre Dame (that would be the other more famous church) to find a long line snaking through the courtyard. We’re told it moves fast but it seems to be at a standstill. We hear that Melania is inside with Macron’s wife (I can’t shake a stick in Paris without hitting a Trump. Watch out, Eric, you’re next.) so we opt to return later.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James drinks his second hot chocolate of the trip at Berthilion.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia climbs the gate of Notre Dame.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia shows James some sisterly love at Notre Dame.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We cap off our day with an encore of Breton-style crepes at <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/chez-imog%C3%A8ne-paris-2?hrid=XESUgeqlgrU8Di2PVW8c5A&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Chez Imogene</a> near our apartment. I realize when we get home from the trip that eating dinner each night in our neighborhood away from the center of things might not have been the best plan. We never really experienced Paris as “The City of Lights.”</span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-21567127867128939452018-02-13T14:21:00.000-08:002018-03-21T11:24:00.098-07:00Day 12: Lovin’ the Louvre<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We take the <a href="https://parismuse.com/">Louvre’s Muse tour</a> with our guide Guillaume. The cost at first seems rather exorbitant, but it’s highly recommended by two friends (Suzanne and Hera)</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and is named by all of us as a highlight of the Paris portion of our trip. The tour is organized as a treasure hunt where kids solve clues along the way. Highlights include the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi">Code of Hammurabi</a>, the <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/arago-medallions">Arago line marker</a> (basically the French version of the Prime Meridian before it was moved to Greenwich), and my favorite, the massive<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=louvre+mesopotamian+sculptures&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS648US648&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7gam-9aPZAhVL6WMKHdwnBsYQsAQINQ&biw=1476&bih=1143"> Mesopotamian sculptures</a>. The latter I would never have thought to go out of my way for, so kudos to Guillaume. After the tour we play the card game Guillotine (appropriate for Paris) for a bit, and then attempt to see the Louvre on our own. We have a new appreciation for how easily Guillaume maneuvered around the complicated museum layout. Eventually we find the Egyptian sarcophagi, but by then we’re DEAD tired…</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Julia on one of the Arago medallions marking the Arago Line in the Louvre. The Arago Line was the French rival of the Greenwich Meridian. Funny that we also <a href="http://eatingfor3.blogspot.com/2018/01/day-3-indian-food-greenwich-and-marks.html">visited the Royal Observatory at Greenwich</a> on this trip!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you tell Kathy loves mustard? (But not French's. That's an abomination.)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the Louvre we pass through the gauntlet of Eiffel Tower replica sellers to the hedges of the Tuileries Garden. James LOVES hiding inside the hedges and to his delight we agree to play hide and seek. During the game we keep stumbling on replica sellers peeing in between hedges. (Le gross.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark channels <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/sean-spicer-meltdown-james-comey-606729">Sean Spicer</a>. James: "What was Daddy doing? Peeing?" (This would be because of the number of people we stumbled upon peeing in the hedges.)</td></tr>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-18008319065021068032018-02-12T13:39:00.001-08:002018-03-21T11:24:44.213-07:00Day 11: Sailing Boats and Shell Games<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Kathy, Mark, Julia, and James with their French and Argentine boats at the pond at the Jardin du Luxembourg</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark and Julia goofing off in sync. (Also, right about now I was like, "We have a lunch reservation!")</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have our <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/semilla-paris?hrid=CaY9XWZkOzeAVStUcal1Mw&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">first</a> of <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/pirouette-paris?hrid=Vfuj3hWcwCU8wNBED7mp_A&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">two</a> modern French meals at highly regarded restaurants that are kind of let-downs. We make the mistake of ordering cuttlefish for one of our entrees, and discover we are not fans. It’s like eating scallops mixed with rubber, with a tentacle for effect. Thankfully, James doesn’t mind it (we don’t call him “the garbage disposal” for nothing), and we happily pass off the cuttlefish onto him, while we dig into the steak.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy poses with her new enemy, cuttlefish.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We eat a snack at an <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/la-ruche-%C3%A0-miel-paris-3?hrid=-9zWOeAh-QPDKwwJyeH-ig&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Algerian tea house</a> (Tea: you can take the girl out of London, but you can’t take London out of the girl), and sip mint tea and try all sorts of Algerian sweets.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Locks on the Pont des Arte. A few years ago they cut off all the padlocks on the bridge because of the structural damage they were causing. When we visited, the locks were only visible on street lamps and on a thin pipe on the stairs underneath the bridge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right after I took this photo of a shell game on the Pont de Arte, this guy told me "no pictures." (A friend said, “He probably wants you to shell out for the photo.”)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia climbs on one of the many rings on the wall next to the Seine. They were constantly drawn to these like moth to flame.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia’s favorite thing of the day: Boats at Jardin du Luxembourg (especially the “boat fight” between her French boat and the U.K. one - their boats briefly got stuck together)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://eatingfor3.blogspot.com/2018/02/day-10-exploring-passages-in-rain.html">Day 10: Exploring Passages in the Rain</a></span></span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-45422974986942909242018-02-08T11:42:00.000-08:002018-03-22T11:05:34.624-07:00Day 10: Exploring Passages in the Rain<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">(This will all be downhill after my Paris sex dungeon apartment post.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We begin with lunch at the Google Paris office, complete with a cheese course (it’s </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia checks out the Google Paris office.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Eiffel Tower at the Google Paris office</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James eats a chocolate macaron from Laduree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exquisite Art Nouveau (my favorite period of art!) dome at the Galeries Lafayette department store</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The family that berets together, stays together. (For the record, we only tried these on in the shop.)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">To avoid the rain, we explore the Grand Boulevards and particularly the sheltered passages. The passages are basically glass-roofed shopping arcade alleyways from the mid-to-late 1800s, some with impressive iron work and mosaics. We explore Passage du Panoramas and Passage Jouffroy, where my book warns that you can lose yourself here for a few hours. I can see why. There are fascinating stores with antiques, rare books, and old-fashioned candy, and I finally have to drag Mark and Julia away from the boxes of antique postcards.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">We just liked that the "for dummies" series here was "pour les nuls."</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a midday snack we Uber to Angelina and share a tea service. (Yay, tea!) It’s not the same as tea in London though. (Boo!) But Angelina is known for their hot chocolate, which is made by basically melting down a chocolate bar. Since they’re known for that I had no choice but to try it. I would have been “le rude” not to. (We end up getting hot chocolate three times in Paris. Angelina’s was the best.)</span></div>
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<a href="https://eatingfor3.blogspot.com/2018/02/day-91-when-you-stay-in-apartment-of.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre;">Friendly Sex Dungeon</a></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-18619463899376108672018-02-06T11:07:00.000-08:002018-02-08T12:48:52.472-08:00 Day 9.1: When You Stay in the Apartment of an Erotic Photographer Or Our Family-Friendly Sex Dungeon<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I found our Paris apartment on AirBnb, it was literally at the highest dollar of our price range. (If it was one dollar higher I’d never have seen it!). It included pinball, foozball, and billiards, as well as a working traffic light, and we decided to splurge on it because the kids would love it (they did), and it would be memorable. Well, it was memorable all right…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfortunately the slot machine didn't work but everyone loved playing pinball. You can see some of the decorative neon lights here, too. The fact that there's a woman's torso wearing underwear almost goes without saying since there are a few of those.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friends said, “Imagine the action that thing has seen.” I replied, “It's just a harmless pool table compared to the rest of the apartment!”</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fast forward two months to our Paris arrival. As we enter the apartment there’s a suit of armor with a pink feather boa, and in the living room we’re surrounded by cheap-looking red velvet upholstery and there’s even more of it hanging from the ceiling. It looks like a bordello, plus the apartment is completely inundated with leopard and zebra prints. Our bedroom has little natural (or artificial) light, and is almost completely taken up by a giant leopard print platform bed. The bed is topped with a few stuffed jungle animals and there are more throughout the room. Everything looks custom made with leopard fabric, even the bookcases and TV stands. And the platform surrounding the bed is covered in (of course) more leopard fabric, which means it’s never really cleaned. Mark says we should take a black light to it, and I say I REALLY don’t want to know.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The tiger and leopard print bedroom. Note the print on the bed platform, the bookcase, and the TV stand (on the far left but you can't see the TV).</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">So far the sex dungeon effect has been subtle, but then we notice the bedroom knick-knacks. The letters S-E-X make for a bookend. Among other things there’s also a statue of a woman on all fours, with her dress up and no panties. Also, a plushie topless woman’s torso. Without even seeing the plushie, Julia asks why there are so many things here with women’s private parts.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just in case you didn't get the hint, here's a bookend to tell you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Um, gimp mask and wig?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doesn't everyone have a plushie woman's torso? (Mark suggested stars or googly eyes on this picture over the nipples, but I thought that it took away too much from the stuffed nipple creepiness factor.)</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then James finds the chain cuffs attached to the headboard. James asks, “Why are there chains attached to the top part of belts?”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bed with chain cuffs bolted to the headboard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chain cuff close-up!</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark notices a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Spasmes/dp/2914295146/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517943955&sr=8-2&keywords=spasmes">book of erotic photography</a> by our host on top of a stack of books by the coffee table. I take a look and immediately recognize some of the chairs and backdrops, and of course leopard and zebra print props. And then I take pictures of those photos in the book and pictures of where they were photographed.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In case you want to go check out our Air BnB host's book of erotic photography... That's his name on the cover as the photographer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I saw this picture in the Air BnB host's book of erotic photography and looked up from where I was sitting and saw…</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...the same backdrop!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(I only chose examples with no nudity.) I know I've seen this chair before...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...Oh! There it is!</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the record, a 6-year-old boy usually lives here, and the kids slept in his bunk bed. So it’s both family friendly and a sex dungeon.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice wholesome bunk beds</td></tr>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-23029207080866305752018-02-02T13:32:00.001-08:002018-03-21T11:30:12.659-07:00Day 9: Taking the Train to Paris<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back to reporting about our July trip to Europe. I was very passionate about the London leg of our trip (Tea! Cotswolds! More tea!). So I apologize in advance that the Paris leg won’t have the same verve. But I promise that tea will reappear at some point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">James's postcard to Bubby and Grandpa, sent from the train station</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia watches Kathy and James walk next to the canal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at those muscles!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy with a portrait of herself (covered in freckles) by Julia.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Even the McDonald's in Paris have macarons. (We never tried them but we kind of wanted to.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We finally relent and buy the kids fidget spinners. At least Julia’s has the Union Jack so it’s kind of a souvenir, right? Right? We have to confiscate them when walking around because otherwise they would never look up. They try to do tricks with the fidget spinners so all we hear is the sound of the the spinners hitting the ground on buses and subways over and over again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We follow the lead of Hannah who just visited London, and take the kids to the <a href="https://goape.co.uk/days-out/london/battersea">Go Ape</a> ropes course in Battersea Park. Even though it’s the Junior course, it’s surprisingly high and tricky to negotiate. When I make the mistake of trying to race across one of the crossings, I end up slamming my leg against the wood support and struggle to regain balance. Mark tells me that Julia laughed while James said, “I hope Mommy’s OK.” Reportedly, sociopath Julia also laughed when she saw two people collide on a zipline later.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The harness guy hears Julia’s British accent and laughs and laughs. (The Brits seem to really enjoy hearing American children attempt their accent.) He tells the harness lady (but imagine in a slightly cockney accent), “Listen to this one. She sounds more posh than you, you street urchin!”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy and Julia trade sunglasses.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We visit the Victoria and Albert Museum and I wish I had a month to see the whole thing. It’s like the Louvre of randomness. For instance, when we follow a <a href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/B89LnpVw/back-packs">medieval-themed treasure hunt</a> through the museum, one highlight is <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/l/leonardo-da-vinci/">Leonardo Da Vinci’s 2 ½ inch high notebook</a> penned in mirror writing. Another cool thing is seeing <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O211484/playing-card-durand-f/">playing cards and stencils</a>, and a video of how they were made in the 1400s.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James models a medieval burgher's hat similar to the ones on the tapestry behind him at the Victoria and Albert Museum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's not a trip to a museum without James and Julia giggling while taking pictures of butts.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We keep the tradition alive of losing a kid while on vacation by losing James in Harrod’s. He’s upset but when he calms down he wants to show me the <a href="http://hiandlois.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/182/files/2016/01/FamilyCircus.jpg">path he took through Harrod’s food hall</a>, retracing his whole adventure.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having a snack of chapati (honeyed flatbread) and karak (tea that's similar to chai) at the aptly named Qatari tea room, <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/chapati-and-karak-london?hrid=YSEchxuG24Yjlh6Sr5B5kQ&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Chapati and Karak</a>. We took off our shoes to sit in the pillowed booth.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia is excited about the caviar counter at Harrod's. She only thinks she likes caviar because there was a little bit on her smoked salmon savory at a tea. Give up, Julia. There's no way we're buying it.</td></tr>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-41251207913769396092018-01-29T12:49:00.000-08:002018-03-21T11:32:05.778-07:00Day 7: The Best. Tea. Ever.<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We start the day on the London Eye. (It was in Julia’s "<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Mysteries-Super-Castle-Crime/dp/0385371594/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517256450&sr=8-1&keywords=a+to+z+mystery+castle+crime">A to Z Mystery: The Castle Crime</a>," so we have to do it.) Next we visit Hamley’s (suggested by Hannah), which, between the six floors of toys, employees running demos of the cool toys, and the high prices, is reminiscent of the Toys R Us in Times Square (R.I.P.). I feel bad dragging the kids away but the next stop ends up being everyone’s favorite part of the whole trip: <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/claridges-london-2?hrid=ufqOCRpQPewUBAtgs4TlPQ&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Claridge’s</a> for tea. (It’s been a whole two and a half days since our last tea!) It was a tea that my friend Suzanne originally suggested, and I thought she was just mentioning a random tea place in her hotel until I researched teas in London and this was on the top of every list.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben from the London Eye</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and Kathy on the London Eye</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and James in front of Big Ben.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James and Julia at Hamley's toy store. Monarchist Julia liked Lego Queen Elizabeth. James liked her corgi.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm guessing that if you're not allowed to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/07/20/queen-elbow-blunder-mxb-lon-orig.cnn">steady the queen by the elbow</a>, you're definitely not supposed to sit on her lap.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each of the desserts in the sweets course are on par with <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/alexanders-patisserie-mountain-view">Alexander’s Patisserie</a>, the splurge-worthy dessert place near us, AND they bring extras of anything you want. But sadly by then we’re full. As we leave there’s a sweets trolley full of candy canes, lollipops, hard candies, and mints, and the kids have a ball filling their to-go containers. The entire tea takes three hours, and we trek a mile afterwards to Buckingham Palace (again, featured in "The Castle Crime" so a must see!) so I’m sure we walk ALL of it off.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark said this scene with the doting adults at the sweets trolley totally reminded him of "Annie" when she arrives at the mansion and learns (through song, of course) that all the adults are there to serve her.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia’s favorite thing of the day: Tea at Claridge’s and joking later that the bathroom attendant should have wiped her butt (she keeps giggling at that idea)</span><br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-24489499418026562742018-01-26T11:06:00.000-08:002018-03-21T11:33:00.096-07:00Day 6: Windsor Castle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia happened to read the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Super-Castle-Crime-ebook/dp/B00EBRU0US">A to Z Mystery: The Castle Crime</a>, before we announced our vacation destinations, and she viewed the places the kids in the book visited as a checklist for our trip. Therefore we HAD to go to Windsor Castle, and I’m glad we did since it was one of my favorite parts of our trip. Julia asked if we’d run into the queen like the kids in the book. Sorry, Julia, no.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">By order of the queen (seriously! I inquired!) no pictures are allowed inside the castle. Methinks the queen wants us to buy the souvenir books. So you’ll have to take my word (and the pictures I found online) that the state apartments were amazing. There are paintings by Rubens and Van Eyck that no one even notices because of all the awesome stuff in the room: so many weapons that they’re displayed in patterns and shapes, and of course more of King Henry VIII’s armor. There are halls of heraldic banners, and <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/92618/take-virtual-tour-queen-marys-dollhouse">Queen Mary’s Dollhouse</a>, an intricate, several story dollhouse that fascinated the kids.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Thames as it flows between the towns of Windsor and Eton. We would have liked to take a boat out on the river, but discovered them too late.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia attacks her third sticky toffee pudding of the trip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">James has fun climbing on the London subway and Mommy's lap.</td></tr>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-77031580004778880902018-01-25T10:01:00.001-08:002018-03-21T11:33:48.760-07:00Day 5: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tea & National Gallery<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two whole days have passed so it’s time for another tea! This time we check out the <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/one-aldwych-london?hrid=B42WB74iCQZK4U8PtN0XBg&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">One Aldywich Hotel’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tea</a>. The sweets include chocolate caramel milk, lemon meringue pie in glasses, and gold dusted chocolate eggs filled with cheesecake and mango. One highlight of the experience is candy floss, which is what the English call cotton candy. They have you try to guess the flavor of the candy floss, and we are unsuccessful in our (many) guesses. Our server reveals that 70% of Brits get it right and 0% of Americans. (I don’t want to give it away lest someone decides to go here - Do it! It’s awesome! - so I’ll obscure it at the bottom of this post.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and candy floss</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />The trip has really made Julia obsessed with tea (and salmon sandwiches and - believe it or not - CAVIAR since the <a href="http://eatingfor3.blogspot.com/2018/01/day-2-tower-of-london-science-tea.html">first place for tea</a> served it on top of their salmon), and she declares that she wants to go for tea with just me and Gaga one day. Mark assures James that they will go for a <a href="http://www.sees.com/">See’s</a> lunch. The concierge at our tea hotel asks if we enjoyed our tea. We tell him we did, and he responds not with “very good” (or even “jolly good”), but with a “tip top!” which is my new favorite British-ism.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and James come from the future to ride the elevator to have tea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia, Mark, and James view "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)">The Ambassadors</a>." I wanted to go to the National Gallery just for the moment where they see the skull pop out of the painting from this angle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia's still raising her fist at the British the day after July 4th.</td></tr>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-30888576991821402112018-01-24T11:07:00.001-08:002018-03-21T11:34:38.014-07:00Day 4: The Cotswolds<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We use a Groupon to take a bus tour of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswolds">Cotswolds</a>, which is officially an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The Cotswolds are basically rolling English countryside with rural villages and stone houses that look like they came out of a Thomas Kinkaid painting - but you know, not sucky.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark at the London Google office. (The clock reads “Mountain View.”)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathy at the iconic Arlington Row in Bibury. I feel like The Painter of Light's going to get me.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The village of Bourton-on-the-Water is lovely, and - you guessed it! - located right on the water. By the time we get to Stow-on-the-Wold (dig these hyphenated names!), Mark is pretty much Cotswold-town’ed out and we stop for tea.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It doesn't take much to push over Kathy.</td></tr>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101386370535038020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833552514823456611.post-66004927954276387582018-01-23T12:23:00.002-08:002018-01-25T10:09:39.829-08:00Day 3: Indian Food, Greenwich, and Mark’s Cousin Shelby<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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The national dish in the U.K. is chicken tikka masala so we can’t resist eating lunch at <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/dishoom-london-2?hrid=D1Wt9en1gfeFMRT6c7JhNg&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)">Dishoom</a>, an Indian restaurant near <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/locations/london/whitechapel-brick-lane">Brick Lane</a>. (Also, lunch seems like it’s the only time the line to eat there isn’t two hours long.) They have chai AND chocolate chai. I am in heaven.</div>
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We take a driverless DLR train to Greenwich, and the kids have the time of their lives running from one end of the empty train to the other. We hike <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">up to the Royal Observatory and of course stand on the Prime Meridian. (<a href="https://www.livescience.com/51894-prime-meridian-shifts.html">Conspiracy alert</a>: GPS actually locates the Prime Meridian 100 meters east of where we’re standing.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;">We walk through the crowded, but charming, </span><a href="https://www.timeout.com/london/shopping/columbia-road-flower-market" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;">Columbia Road Flower Market</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;">, and enjoy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;">listening to the flower market barkers: “Three for a tenner!” (That would be a ten pound </span><br />
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