The idea of travelling to Europe alone was pretty daunting to me but I did it. I chose London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam as my "cities to visit". Having no working knowledge of French, I was feeling really nervous as to how am I going to survive with just a few French phrases at my disposal. But when I arrived in Paris, all my apprehensions ...

Entry 1 of a trip titled: Paris, France

Paris, France

Okay, I just spent 20 minutes typing a message but lost it all when I hit send and don't have it in me to re-write.  We were able to find an unsecure wireless network to log on to from our room, so hopefully we can do this all week!  All is well and we are in Paris.  Enjoying it very much but surprise we are up this late and ready...

Yesterday was probably the most beautiful day we will have on the trip... cool, but sunny and fairly clear.  While Jude went with the boys to get their penguin suits, I walked from our hotel down Boulvd Saint Jacques past the Place Denfert Rochereau and the Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain to the Cimetiere du Montparnasse...  ...

So while Jude was out taking pictures around town with the other boys, I spent the first part of my day walking around our neighborhood.  We found out about a street that has a lot of consignment shops and "stock" - which is kind of like an outlet.  Mostly I found out though, that everything is still really expensive in France.  I...

Only a few minutes to post...  we are trying to get to the Louvre first thing, before the crowds.  Yesterday was a big walking day again.  Isle de St. Louis (ice cream), all along the Seine, and then the Orsay.  Since I had seen the museum before and Jude's not a huge museum fan, we did the "Readers Digest" version and waited...

If we thought we got wet on the Bateau Mouches, we had no idea!  Funny thing; I remember us commenting that it was so cold that we wished it would just be 10 degrees colder so the rain would at least be snow.  Well, what we forgot is that between rain and snow, there is HAIL!!  We got up yesterday and headed straight to the Louvre...