Last Weekend in Paris

Mindy was pretty happy to track down a couple boxes of KD.

Due to some upcoming travel, this weekend marks the last full weekend that Mindy and I will be spending in Paris. In celebration of this glorious weekend and to say goodbye to a city we both love what did we do? Most people would make a farewell tour to various sites before enjoying a nice, traditional french meal. We has a little different take on what we would do.

Well, we started this morning with Aunt Jamaima pancakes topped with maple syrup. After breakfast, which was consumed more around a brunch time, we hopped on the Metro and headed to the city center to do some shopping. I needed some new flip-flops so we visited such stores as Gap, C&A, Adidas, and the Nike store. It was finally while looking in the Quiksilver store where I found the sandals that I needed in the appropriate beach bum style that I like to sport while on vacation.

After our shopping experience, we headed to le Marais district to check out an American grocery store called ThanksGiving that we heard about. Aparently the store has been in business for close to 20 years, much to Mindy's dismay as she has really been missing her French's mustard, which ironically is not sold in France. We puchased the most expensive boxes of Kraft Dinner we will ever purchase ($15 Canadian for one regular box and one family size box) plus an A&W Rootbeer for Mindy and a Dr.Pepper for myself.

After completing our purchases, we headed back to the Champs Elysees where we picked up a couple burgers at McDonald's to take with us to the movies as we had previously obtained tickets to go see The Fast & The Furious 4. The movie was great, burgers were good, and the Dr.Pepper amazing. And so ended the first day of our goodbye weekend in Paris.

If you are living in Paris and need a fix from home, check out ThanksGiving at 20 Rue St. Paul.