La Vie En Rose

Throughout junior high and high school my biggest dream was to visit Paris. I took a few french classes, watched movies about Paris from the library, wrote school papers on the Eiffel Tower. As the years have passed, my passion for Paris has dwindled a bit. I'm not as high-strung about it as I was a few years ago. That is until I saw La Vie En Rose. I knew nothing about Edith Piaf until seeing this movie (which I had to subtitle in english since my french isn't very strong). I only knew of the song La Vie En Rose because of Louis Armstrong's version which I first heard in one of my all-time favorite movies, French Kiss [spoiler alert:end of movie].

I am officially back on the dream path to Paris. The breads, the buildings, the lights, the romance, the wine, everything. It's back to number one on my travel list!

somewhere over the rainbow

Have you ever wanted to move away? Go to a place where noone would know your name and you could start all over? Many people would love to move where I live, the east coast of Florida. Only 10 minutes from the beach...may seem like "the life" to others. I though would love to move to a place with actual seasons. In Florida we have a joke as to what our "seasons" are...Tourist season (winter), lovebug season (spring), hurricane season (summer-fall) and all year-round it is summer. I would love to move to an area where snow is looked forward too, as well as leaves changing colors, the first signs of spring. All we get here is looking forward to our oranges growing in the winter. My dream is to run off to Virginia. Not too hot, not too cold, mountains, close to ocean, historic sites, the whole nine yards...
Where would you go?

(photo credit: ranhar2 )