Yesterday morning (Friday), after a very good breakfast of yogurt, bread, croissant, apple, OJ & coffee at Hotel Bellevue, I decided to jump on the hotel computer (I had not been online since Wednesday night) to check my email and a few other things for the day. When I went to Yahoo, the headline of the page jumped out at Vivian—the legendary pop star Michael Jackson had passed away (Michael Jackson est mort). We were both shocked. What was weird (especially for Vivian) was that, because we were without the internet for what seemed like a long time, it had been [View Full Entry]

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We made it! It's been such a long day. In the airport, Viv got stopped at security. Our flights were fine, but there was no personal TV! I watched (or tried to watch) "New in Town," "Hotel for Dogs," and "Race to Witch Mountain." Couldn't finish the first two and the last was pretty bad too, but at least it had The Rock in it. After only a little confusion in the airport, we eventually made it to Gare du Nord, where we switched to the Metro to go to our hotel. Someone was really cranky at this point, but i [View Full Entry]

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Here we are, 24 hours before we land in Paris. I think i'm all packed, at least i hope i am. I'm writing this blog mainly for myself. I want to try to write about things so I don't forget them. It won't be the most elegant or funny blog--unless maybe i could get PaulofFame to write it--but i'll do my best. If anyone else wants to follow along then that's great. I'll try to update every once in a while and i'll definitely try to put some pics up too. My traveling companion will be this girl named vivian. She's [View Full Entry]

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