Marcy and I had a very early roll call this morning in order to make our connection to Versailles. We had booked a tour and were supposed to meet our guide at a special spot on Place de la Concorde--and we walked out of the subway (which has NUMEROUS ways out) EXACTLY where we needed to be. After the fiasco we had trying to get to the CityRama office for our tour of the Louvre, this was especially sweet. And I don't know if I've mentioned this previously, but we ...

This morning we had a tour planned for Notre Dame and then we had the rest of the day to try to hit as many of the sights that we could since tomorrow we're journeying out to Versailles for an all day excursion. But first...our adventure at The Moulin Rouge last night. We were pretty exhausted as we walked down the road at 7:00 pm last night to catch the subway that would take us to the stop that was literally right next to Moulin Rouge. However, once we were on...

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...