A Brief Look Ahead

AURORE, CHARLINE ET MOI

So, I have one more week of vacation and the plan is to hang around Avignon and Cavaillon, to visit Montpellier, to hang out with Tatum and Iris (if they ever repond to my emails) and to be lazy. After that I start school and then near mid-April it's vacation again and two weeks in Morocco. I come back in May and have 2 weeks left of school and then I leave. I'll be playing soccer three times a week as well and be kept plenty busy. I'll be home soon though it seems because it's all going so quickly. So....excuse me but it's time to go make us of the 22° weather. SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy your snow!!!

A Week In Paris (not Hilton)

self portrait with the Eiffle Tower

So here I am back from a week in Paris and blogging once more and as I am tired and have spent the last 24hours either sitting or lying down I am going to give you a rather bland day-by-day so that I can go and walk around a bit. So, first off, Paris was rather dreary weather but it was fun none the less.

Saturday February 24 - we arrived at two a.m. in the morning at Sarah's appartment and when we woke up several hours later we visited the Place Des Vosges with the Jurie-Joly's Belgium friends, Dominic, Katherine and their daughters Aimée and Charline. It was quite nice and a little sunny at that point so we walked around a bit and looked at all the art galleries....yawn!! We then went to Victor Hugo (guy who wrote Les Miserables) house and explored a bit and learned about his mistress and wife and kids and exile, etc. etc. After we walked around near the Musée de Beaubourgs (which is the first picture at the top). I have no idea whats inside but it looks modern. Afterwards we went to the cemetary Père Lachàse and saw Jim Morrison's grave before getting kicked out by the guard because it was closing time.

Sunday 25 February - Today we went to Disneyland and went on insane amounts of rides and did lots of fun stuff and saw a presentation of the Lion King which was lame but entertaining none the less.

Monday 26 February - We walked by the Eiffle Tower and ate in the Trocadero gardens and visited Napolean's grave in Les Invalides and saw the war museum for world war 1 and 2. We then walked about Champs de Mars.

Tuesday 27 February - We went to the Musée du quai Branly which is a new Native Arts museum from around the world and was one of my favourite parts of the week. We then met Aurore's Paris friends Ludivine and L (I cannot for the life of me remember her name) and walked around the Champs Elysées and then went home and had dinner at their friends house. Raphael and Annielle.

Wednesday 28 February - We walked around the Louvre, the Opera and the Quartier Latin and around La Seine and Notre Dame and did some 'riverside' shopping.

Thursday 1 March - We visited Versailles and that is all I can say on that subject. In the evening we stayed with friends and they were really nice. They had three kids, Fanny (who was four and highly entertaining) and Matthieu (who broke glass and cried and is 2) and Julie (who is 7 months and slept the whole time)

Friday 2 March - We drove home all day and had lunch in Moulins on the way with friends. Very nice week. Glad it's over though because everything in Paris reminded me of my parents and our trip to Paris and that made me cry.

CRY WATCH - I haven't cried since Tuesday but I've felt like crying but couldn't it's all very very strange.