The Uszch

As in, "it's back to the usual today."

Meh. Now I know why people go straight on their honeymoons after getting married.

On that note, I don't think I've mentioned where David and I will be "honeymooning." I put honeymooning in scare quotes because we won't be going until Thanksgiving, as that's when the university gives us a week off.

For our honeymoon we decided to go to ... France and Switzerland! (Gasp!)

http://wikitravel.org/en/File:ParisView.jpg

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/switzerland

This is kind of a big deal for me, since it's only my second trip overseas and I've wanted to go to France and Switzerland for a long long time. It's also kind of fitting, since it was on my first trip overseas--to England--last year at Thanksgiving that David proposed to me. (I also put "honeymoon" in quotes because we had to call it a honeymoon or my mother would get pissed that we were gone for two Thanksgivings in a row. Honeymoon=best excuse to avoid a fried turkey ever!) (Also, I'm hoping that calling it a honeymoon will prompt hotel managers to send champagne to our room. Does that make me white trash?)

Some things I'm looking forward to on the trip:

1) Eating a croissant and looking around furtively, only to discover that croissants aren't "bad" in France the way they are "bad" in the US. As far as guilt and food go, France > United States. Croissants for everybody!

2) Visiting the Père Lachaise Cemetery:

http://www.gothic-culture.com/europe/104-pere-lachaise-cemetery.html

3) Watching David try to speak rudimentary French. I suspect those French peeps are going to hate how effusive and goofy he is...

And, just so you guys have something to look forward to, maybe I'll even get a decent camera by then so you can see some pretty pics of our travels rather than iPhone pictures of half-eaten croissants left on dirty plates in dark cafes. (Everybody wins!)

*Did you go on a honeymoon? Where?