Just a quick update while I wait for Brenton to finish getting ready and eating (the free!) breakfast. Thanks for the great posts on the board. It's great to know we have the support and love of family and friends back home! Bob: I don't know if you've been over here recently, but the amount of police and military is amazing. There have at least 2 or 3 different types of law enforcement - military, police, and something else. City police seem to carry a han...

Just a quick update while I wait for Brenton to finish getting ready and eating (the free!) breakfast. Thanks for the great posts on the board. It's great to know we have the support and love of family and friends back home! Bob: I don't know if you've been over here recently, but the amount of police and military is amazing. There have at least 2 or 3 different types of law enforcement - military, police, and something else. City police seem to carry a han...

Just a quick update while I wait for Brenton to finish getting ready and eating (the free!) breakfast. Thanks for the great posts on the board. It's great to know we have the support and love of family and friends back home! Bob: I don't know if you've been over here recently, but the amount of police and military is amazing. There have at least 2 or 3 different types of law enforcement - military, police, and something else. City police seem to carry a han...

Just a mini-update while we do some research back at the hotel... We stayed up until around 4AM talking with folks in the lobby, so we missed the ending of the Tour de France. Not a huge loss since I'm not a big biking fan, but it was something that may have been neat. We chatted up an aussie law student and a new zealand soon-to-be doctor. They were a great lot and had a greater grasp of politcs than most folks in the US. I argued with them about socialized...

Guest blogger, Brenton... Paris is a nice and clean city thats beautiful (most of the time). It's a fun experinece begging for money on the streets. (Which I did...) We (my dad and I) went on a night bike tour all over Paris we went to see lots of stuff like Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, The Louvre where i saw Mona Lisa, and finally, the big scary ark!!! Look at the picture above.. When i went down to the river i wrapped my hoodie around my body sat down jotted ...