We didn't have to be anywhere this morning, so, of course, I was awake at 6:00 am. Boo!! I resolved to wash my hair and get ready for whatever we chose to do. Once everyone was up, we decided to go with Jeanne to see her cooking school, Cordon Bleu, which is literally just a little walk away, then hit some of the street markets that were set up for today. We parted ways since Jeanne had chores to do and struck out on the subway for Trocadero so Marcy could get a ...

Since it doesn't get light here until about 8:30, I have been sleeping late and then rushing to get out the door. It was lightly raining when we left for the subway this morning, so we had to grab an umbrella--first time we've had rain since we've been here. By the time we met our tour guide at the tour office, it had stopped and never did start up again. We've been very lucky with the weather so far. Jeanne told us it had rained every day for two weeks before we...

After a few starts and stops this morning (ie not being able to figure out where we were and where we needed to go), we finally found the tourist office to meet our guide for the Louvre. (What really stinks is that we were right next to their office and walked about two miles out of our way since we didn't see it!!) The tour guide, Anne,was very informative and had a lot of fun things to tell us about the history of the building that the Louvre is housed in. She...

Marcy & I woke up feeling like we'd been run over by a Mac truck. Neither of us slept well at all. We hit the road in spite of feeling yucky and managed to get ourselves to the proper place to meet our tour guide in the area of Montmartre. The most challenging thing was trying to figure out whether we should walk up the street or go the other way once we were off the subway. All the shops along the way were dealing with sex in one fashion or another, some wit...

Marcy and I arrived in Paris a little later than originally planned but everything went very smoothly. We managed to get through customs and find the Super Shuttle, which thought we were no-shows! However, we ended up having a very nice Mercedes SUV all to ourselves, so I guess it worked out well in the end and we arrived at my friend, Blair's, apartment without any issues. She was waiting outside of her apartment building and once inside, greeted us with fresh...