Today is the final stage of the Tour de France, and the riders came flying into Paris late this afternoon. Dad and I both thought it would be fun to see, by I was told we'd have to get a spot 4 or 5 hours ahead of time if we wanted to actually see anything when they came through. Pshh. Forget that! Our backup plan was to head to Versailles early this morning and watch as they came through on their way to the finish line. Unfortunately, we slept until 10:30AM and ...

We woke up this morning to a very strong and not-so-pleasant smell in the apartment (no, it wasn't one of us, I think). It turns out that the cheese in the fridge was groing stronger and more powerful; we needed to get rid of it before it could open the fridge door on its own! But it sure was tasty. Tim was at our door first thing this morning, and we headed out without a solid plan of what we would do today. The weather was exceptionally great: Florida sun with...

I've been looking forward to today for a loooong time because it's the day I got to see one my best friends on the planet again. We haven't seen each other since my last trip to France five years ago, and I was really excited that he was going through all the trouble of visiting us in Paris from where he lives near Avignon. We had planned on meeting at our first tourist stop of the day (Notre Dame; gotta beat those lines) but we discovered that his hotel was only...

Today was our first whole day in Paris, so you'd probably think we got up straight away to take advantage of it. Sure that would've been smart but, meh. After yesterday's enjoyable deathmarch through the city, we couldn't pry ourselves out of bed until 10AM. And even then, we had a ,ission before we could get to the fun stuff: find a laundromat! Precious underwear supplies were running low, so we shoved all of our dirty stuff into our backpacks and went out in se...