Paris

So, Christy and I have been in Paris for ten days now and we've mostly adjusted to this extremely foreign (to us) place. Her parents and sister have been here with us and they will be here till Sunday.

We've hit all the major tourist spots: the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Pantheon, the Siene, the roadside creperies, etc.

We've been to four museums, Walked thousands of miles, We've eaten baguettes every day, we've eaten stinky cheese and we have even eaten snails. We have taken a taxi, a bus, a train, and we rode bikes. They have a public bicycle sharing program here called Velib (www.velib.Paris.fr) You pay for a membership and they have 24,000 bikes in service around the city with a station every couple blocks. You check out a bike with your bike pass from a station and you return it at a station near your destination. It's pretty cool.

The sun doesn't set here till after 9:30, which is weird. Doesn't get dark until about 10:15. Paris is a lot more touristy than I thought it would be. Paris is called the "City of Light"... I haven't been outside after dark yet. I got another five weeks here though, I think I'll manage to get out.