Fantastic Pharmacy Fun

Fantastic Pharmacy Fun

One thing that you can always find in Paris is a pharmacie. Any time that you're out walking around in the streets, just take a look around you & no doubt you will see the neon green cross that will guide your way toward the salvation that only prescription medicine, band aids & medicated ointments can provide.Naturally, once you get inside, it's a bit smaller than most American drug stores & it's all business in there.Perhaps you're thinking, "Well, of course it's all business...it's a damn pharmacy. What else would you do in there?"Well, here's the thing: at some American drug stores, say...like a Walgreen's, there is a lot more to do inside. You don't even have to need any prescription medication, band aids or medicated ointments to have a good time in there. Really, you don't even have to buy anything. Just peruse the aisles for something ridiculous - which you will have no problem finding - & have...
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Mountain Valley Home

Mountain Valley Home

Most people, when they think of Estes Park, Colorado, think of The Shining. If they don't know any better, then they just assume that going to the Stanley Hotel means that they'll be staying in that swanky hotel that they saw in Kubrick's movie.Okay, this place is in Oregon, not Colorado.If one were to stay at the Stanley Hotel, what they would actually get is an overpriced room overlooking the McDonald's and the Safeway parking lot. It's there. You can see it if you squint.As tempted as we were by the grandeur of the golden arches & the wildlife milling about at Safeway, Olivier & I instead spent a night of our U.S. tour at Mountain Valley Home B&B.We came in and got comfortable... ...uh, well...really comfortable......like, Tony Montana comfortable.Then we headed down to the Tuscan Wine Room - which I'm sorry that I don't have pictures of, but it can be seen on their website.Olivier and I, along with a...
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13 Things to Do In Paris

  1.  Stand at your window & wait for an organ grinder or other street musician to appear on the street to entertain you.    2. Go look at shiny things.    3. Mingle among some of the locals.    4. Spend an afternoon loitering in front of Jim Morrison's old apartment building.     5. Or, you could just go see Jim.    6. You can visit some more old friends while you're there.    7. Go to a rugby game.     8. Or you could just go watch it on TV in a bar.     9. Enjoy the thick, pungent aroma & charm of the Paris sewers.    10. Go stand next to someone you don't know & have your picture taken with a stranger.    11. Approach people at help desks & attempt to communicate with them only by whistling.    12. Explore creepy basements.    13. Take lots of pictures.Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!The purpose of the meme is to get to...
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