Erm, so about it being May. Oops. Time has been flyyyyyyyying by! It's already been a week since Mom & Aunt Jenny left. That was a great two weeks! I must say I miss eating delicious food all the time. To quickly recap some of the highlights of everything that's happened since then... the day we went to Père Lachaise, the huge cemetery where lots ( Read more... )

Sooooooo, Mom and Aunt Jenny have been here since Sunday evening, and it has been a full-time job for me showing them everything in Paris. I am still somehow finding time to blog about it because I think this will be probably be important to look back on someday. Let's begin!

On Sunday I stalked live flight arrival times online for the Charles de ( Read more... )

Today was a very satisfying day in Paris. It began at the butt-crack of dawn (actually, before dawn, since the sun doesn't rise here until 8:45) when Hilary and I met at Diderot to take care of administrative things. Note that we met at 8 because Anne-Marie told us to be early and that there would be lines. In reality, however, the offices do not ( Read more... )

So, because I probably won't have time to blog every day, these posts are going to wind up being really picture-heavy. Let the madness begin!

Yesterday morning (Friday) we had a tour of l'Hôtel de Ville, which used to host French royalty and nowadays hosts the Parisian administration, the mayor, and other such important affairs. Below is a picture ( Read more... )