So long, Summer

A couple weeks ago, we spent one of the last weekends of summer drinking biertjes, eating Mexican food and making our own poffertjes (mini Dutch pancakes) with Jeanelle and Steven at De Parade. Only a short stroll from our place, we jumped at the chance to check out this small fair and traveling circus again (shamefully, the first time we visited De Parade was only last summer!). And that amateur video producer soon-to-be-husband o' mine put together this small clip of our evening...his videos crack me up ;). I sure got lucky with that guy! 

Also, be sure to check out my guest post for tips on how we saved for our upcoming 6-month backpacking trip around Asia over at A Home Away From Home--Jenna is one of my all-time favorite bloggers...and a fellow travel-obsessed native Californian, if I might add ;)

Picnicking in Paris

Sometime during our Icelandic roadtrip with Denis & Emma, we got on the topic of those amazing Parisian wine bars they took us to last Fall and where we should meet up in Asia next Spring. Then before we knew it, Christian and I had found semi-affordable train tickets to visit Denis & Emma in Paris a few weeks later. We tried to justify the cost by saying it would be our last European weekend trip before moving to California. Oh how I will miss these weekend rendezvous' in Europe!

The weekend worked out exactly as we hoped it would and we did just that: wine-bar hopped and plotted our reunion in Asia next Spring :).

We shared several bottles of wine (maybe more than several), charcuterie boards with pretty spreads of cured meats and cheeses and spent Saturday picnicking by the Eiffel Tower. 

Good friends, good food, good breakfast (thanks Emma!) good wine and trip planning? Life does't get much sweeter. And when Denis & Emma dropped us off at Gare du Nord for our return trip, the smiles on our faces couldn't get any bigger as we said the words "SEE YOU IN BANGKOK!"

My favorite wine bar of the weekend: the cute and bohemian Les Caves Populaires.

Enjoy this short video Christian whipped together from our Parisian weekend!

Video: Our trip to Iceland

Thanks to everyone for all of the tips and words of encouragement following our big announcement last week! Here and here in case you missed it ;). 

You may have noticed a few updates on this little blog of ours to prepare for all of our big changes and travel plans coming up, too. 

But today, after many nights of hard work from Christian, I am happy to share this amazing video Christian created from our Icelandic road trip! 

Starring Christian, our favorite travel buddies Denis and Emma and yours truly, this movie was shot with our fancy-schmancy Go Pro camera (highly recommended).

We will most definitely be shooting Go Pro footage all over Asia, too.

Enjoy!