i'm back!

Just got back yesterday from a 3-week trip to Cairo and Paris. Wow do I sound like a jet setter!! :) For some reason, I find myself depleting my savings each year for a big trip with my Travel Club -- last year we went budget traveling around Southeast Asia and this year, still budget traveling to Cairo and Paris. :P

Paris was so much fun, one of my closest friends Luis just finished an exchange program there so he had a flat (which we all took advantage of, of course -- can't say no to free lodging, even if it requires five people to squeeze into one small room). Since we were really on a budget, we'd go grocery shopping each day and cook dinner at the flat! Needless to say, I can finally cook a decent omelet (must. learn. life. skills.)!

Funny thing, I researched scrapbook stores in Paris and ended up going to Le Temple Du Scrap, a huge store along rue Ernest Cresson. WOW. I've never seen a bigger collection of Rouge de Garance stuff (because duh CH, it's a French brand). Lotsa goodies but I controlled myself because I needed my money to eat (if only!). But nonetheless.. yumyum :) Found my favorite spot in Paris (okay maybe not. Musee d'Orsay comes real close.. haha!).

It was fun coming home to a ton of scrapbook goodies! That's roughly translated to two boxes of SC kits (including a very timely Paris add-on) and some stuff I asked my mom to bring home from the States. Finally have a Crop-a-Dile! And the new Fontwerks Aeropostale stamps :)

It was also great coming home to this, even if my fellow Pinoyscrapbookers already told me about it in advance:

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