A blog to our guests…
While living in Paris for 2 ½ years, we have had the privilege of hosting a total of 47 overnight guests:
By design we set up what would have been the apartment’s master bedroom as our guest room. And I must say we truly enjoyed having everyone come. We had other Paris friends of ours intentionally set up their apartments to avoid having guests by telling them they did have the space. We did the opposite by welcoming everyone and making space even when it was extra tight. We had so many people stay with us it almost came routine. We expected extra people to be around and our kids assumed the same.
Everyone was gracious. Everyone. We tried to make people feel welcome to make our Paris apartment their home away from home as well. I hope we accomplished that. That is not always an easy task when all of our visitors were on vacation and we were living our ‘regular’ lives in Paris. But we tried to do a little ‘vacationing’ with each of them as well. Regardless everyone seemed to be happy to take a key and a map and enjoy Paris whether we were able to tour with them or not. We were always thrilled when people arrived and sad when they left.
Paris has been such a unique life experience for us that we wanted to be able to share it with friends and family that mean so much to us. When we finally return to the US, and get back together with all those who came to visit, it becomes a story we get to share together vs. our own story about a life we had so far away. It is a special thing to be able to relate to such a life event with close friends and family.
If you we were privileged to have you stay with us, thank you for using your precious vacation time to enjoy this amazing city with us. If you weren’t able to make it we are sorry to have missed you. Regardless, a lessoned learned for the Demmerle family is to always keep our door open, and no matter where we are living we hope to see you soon.
Thanks for all the unforgettable memories!
Life is good in Paris!
Enjoy some pictures of our guests. Unfortunately we don't have pictures of everyone...sorry about that.
xoxoxo
Our very first guest...Nate. We named the guest room after him...the Nate Suite!
Nate!!!
Brian's here!
Cousin Chris hangin' with Lance
Caroline with the kidlets!
Caroline and Jeff....doing Thanksgiving dishes!!
Grandma and Uncle Ross!
Jay and Kirsten!!
Hanging with the Davis'
Picnic in the Park!
all enjoying ice cream on a hot day
Lance and Keith
The Fahrney kids and the Demmerle kids
The McNally kids and the Demmerle kids!
Dave trying to eat a crepe!
Keith, Joanna & Dave
The McLaughlin kids and the Demmerle kids!
Tracy and I !
Brian and Keith
My sister Sue!
Yeah, Kristen and her mom!
Kristen and Mom enjoying my favorite Crepe place!
Aunt Susie!
Todd!!
The Fahrney Family @ Sacre Cour
Kids enjoying the bubble man with Olivia
The Lefeber Family...our last guests!!
Beers & Walsh together again at the Paris markets!
Au Revoir to our last guests while living in Paris!
