Eventually, stories and photographs will come. Soon!

A post with my Paris adventures will be coming soon.
The timing of said post? Probably later this week when I get to a location where it doesn't take forever to upload photos.

Also, note that I will be updating here for my travels in August as well.

Thanks for reading while I was in France.

Counting down the hours could be effective.

All of the fun of friends coming to Paris has ended. I'm now alone once again.

Again, a short post. My apologies. Tomorrow is France's Independence Day, so that should be fun (parades, fireworks, etc.).

I return to the United States at 11:40 a.m. on Tuesday. I'm excited to come home...even though it's only for a short while.

I ate a baguette under the Eiffel Tower. How wonderfully clichéd.

I have seen every major tourist spot in Paris. It's now time to find the small things that will make this trip worthwhile (well, more worthwhile). In my wanderings, I've found a lot of interesting places. I will continue to do that.

Don't worry, when I get home, there will be a large update with many pictures for those of you that aren't going to get a shot to see all of my pictures right away.

And now, I take one friend to one train station and go to another to pick up another friend.

Every time I get lost, I end up on Île de St.-Louis.

Happy 4th of July to all of you who are in the United States.

It's just another Friday here.
All that I've been doing is going to museums, sitting in gardens, eating, and walking. I won't complain.

I can't write for long because one of the girls that stayed in Aix for the second month of classes (which I would have done had some people not planned their wedding for the middle of the summer...) is coming to Paris for the weekend. I have to go meet her at the train station.

Oh, and my starspot talk for Poland got officially accepted. Looks like I actually have to do work when I get home. Great.

I find I have a large affinity for objets d'art.

I have really done nothing but sit in parks and visit museums so far. It's not a bad life, but my knees don't appreciate the sacrifice they're being forced to make.

Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to walk to the Louvre...and then walk around the Louvre...for six hours. I then walked around the gardens behind the Louvre and then walked back (feel free to look at a map of Paris, I'm staying in the Bastille region), stopping at the quaint garden behind Notre Dame.

Today, I walked about the same distance to Musée d'Orsay, which has the Impressionists and newer art than the Louvre, but not modern. There are several rooms devoted to Monet. The one room for van Gogh was by far the most crowded. There was an exhibit of extremely old photographs from Great Britain and France. I quite enjoyed that one.

I am really quite sick of the crowds.

I haven't been taking too many photos because I'm pretty tired of photographing buildings, and I think it's generally silly to photograph art (I did get a few to prove that I was at the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay).

I haven't been very lucky with finding good, cheap meals unless they involve bread and fruit. So that is unpleasant. Also, the housekeeper keeps throwing away my empty water bottles...I refill them. Ugh. I need to start hiding them, apparently. It took me two days to catch on.