Chocolate, parks and Football!!

So I'm still way backed up on posts and to accommodate my slow speed I've pushed a lot into this post. It has some pictures of The chocolate exhibit in Paris Salon du Chocolat. I've also attached an outing to one of Paris' lungs The Bois de Vincennes. And lastly I have the photos from the France v. Austria football match (actually a soccer game in the US). So here goes:

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A foreign chocolate vendor

There were rows of Chocolate stands everywhere, most wanted to sell you chocolate. All would give you samples, but some we had to work for.

Spicy chocolate

A hot chocolate stand, with real chocolate

Chocolate:

The Bailey's Center. Offering tons of free samples

A Conveyor belt that produced chocolate

Candied bread loaves:

A fake coco tree

Me

Madison

Jessie

The Macaroon tent, which offered the best cookies

More chocolate, some pretending to be avocados!

Fudgy-chocolate

Chocolate Ties and shirts

Refreshing gelato

Some random mannequins on display.

Some foie gras that was there. my first little taste of this stuff. Not something i would reccommend.

Chocolate clothesThe chocolate mansion

A weird French talk show at the exhibit

Creepy chocolate wizards

So there ends some of the chocolate. It was a massive thing and we all walked away in chocolate comas.
Next up is Jessie and me welcoming the cold weather before bed one night:

Our trip to the East Lung of Paris. We wanted to start at the Zoo, but it is apparently closed until 2013! So we wandered around and ended up in the floral gardens:

Here is what we could have seen:

And an outside look of an animal's habitat.

A very pretty body of water. I'm a little rusty on when something is considered a pond or lake or whatever. My French skills are confusing my english.

Some people and dogs far off in a field having a play date!

A cave that was under that pretty gazebo-ish structure

Apparently i liked the cave

An abandoned mini-golf course

A horse pulling equipment

And the Floral Land

Some weird spindly things hanging from trees.

A cat that was slinking around behind us.

Some well tended pathways

Some random concrete thing in the park

Me as a giantess kicking the Eiffel Tower.

And the miniatures of other famous structures around the world spread out on a mini-golf course in the park.

We were smart and decided to pack a lunch and eat in the park. While eating we were approached by a little creature. He literally walked up to my boot before i freaked out. Then we switched benches. Here he is:

And his friend:

This is the crazy old lady who took over our bench. You might be wondering what she is doing

She is feeding the squirrel. It is on her knee! This is why the world still has so many diseases like rabies.

The flower garden, which was mainly lots of roses.

The kids section of the park was intense. It had some gigantic slides, playgrounds scattered around in the woods and a tricky rope thing that we were not allowed on.

Jessie and I shared a double bike and rode around the gardens, which was great fun as there were tons of little kid on school trips along the path. Great maneuvering skills were needed.

And finally, my first outing to a European sporting event. It was very exciting. As my outfit will show, i was supporting the French Football team. For the occasion we did face painting and tried to wear what we thought were good French outfits.

The Stade de France, outdoor stadium. at the start of the game.

The many French supporters. They cheered "Allez le Bleu," which means "Let's go Blue" and it only took me like fifteen minutes to figure out what they were chanting. But I did figure it out, so that's good.

Some Football action. The French team is in Blue. They beat Austria 3-1 in a very exciting game. However it was freezing at like 6 Celsius.

The Crazy crowd in the metro line after the game.

So many French people around, i almost felt like I was turning into one of them.

So that was an incredibly long post. As one might notice my pictures were not carefully edited and some appear to be showing almost the same thing (like a cave or squirrel). And my commentary is not as thorough, which might be a nice surprise for some of you. But i digress, the whole point of this post was to show you a whole week of stuff that I did and get you ready for more blogs that will follow with the same amount of minimal time. I wish i had more time, but i'm in Paris, so time is limited as you all understand. I've also tired to supply a link to Jessie's photobucket site, where she has tons of pictures of stuff that we have done so far. hopefully it works as a link:

http://s646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/shepherd_jessie/Football%20and%20Salon%20du%20Chocolat/