Happy Bastille Day!

This photo has absolutely nothing to do with Bastille Day, but it does capture the France I so love and adore.  It is La Grosse Horloge et le Vieux Port in La Rochelle, my home for 4 months in 2009 <3

These are a few of my favorite French things....

Can't you just hear that song from the Sound of Music playing right now??  To kick off Paris in July, I'm posting a list of some of my favorite French things!  A lot of these photos are actually ones that Twin took when she went to France, because I wasn't smart enough to take photos of a lot of things, like food.

French wine that is sold in the grocery store and is super cheap and super awesome:

Fresh baguette and affordable French cheese:

Cafe Creme:

Bakeries and Pastry Shops:

Things that totally remind me of Emile Zola and the class I took on him:

French money (Euros):



Medieval Architecture:

Some things I don't have photos of:
-Pain au chocolat
-Macarons
-Sitting outside all the time at cafes
-The market
-The language
-The people
-The culture

And the best for last (which my sis and her BF found on a road in southern France......), really awesome tourbus company names:

Welcome to Kelly's France Blog's month-long celebration of Paris in July!!

Book Blogger Hop, Yay!

Don't Forget to Enter my Halloween Giveaway!  Ends 10/30!!

The Book Blogger Hop is a weekly hop hosted by Crazy-for-Books and is a way for bloggers to find other great blogs to read and make new friends in the blogging world.

This week's question:
"What is the one bookish thing you would love to have, no matter the cost?"

My answer:
I'm pretty sure most of us avid readers are going to have the same answer to this one ;)  I, of course, would love a huge home library.  And could the house that it's in please, please, please, please be in France??  And maybe I could get unlimited books published in French for my French reading habit??  Pretty pretty please?  With suger on top?  LOL we can always hope.

I don't know about you, but I am SO pumped for Halloween this weekend!  I was in France last year for it, and they don't celebrate Halloween like we do here (at least they didn't in my city..).  And I didn't have any Ghost Hunters Live episodes to watch.  And I didn't have any scary movies to watch.  (Unless you count Hocus Pocus that took me two weeks to download from iTunes because of a slow internet connection, which I couldn't watch for 2 weeks after Halloween anyway because of the slow download time..).  I am excited!

And of course, don't forget, if you haven't done so already, to enter my Halloween Giveaway!  Sign-ups close tomorrow, October 30th, but if you get yours in on Halloween morning I'll let that enter too :)  More info can be found here (follow the link).

Happy Hopping!  I can't wait to check out some new-to-me blogs this weekend, as last weekend was too busy for much hopping on my part.

Happy *almost* Halloween!  And who else is jealous that France gets a whole week off now for All Saint's Day?!