France: Day 1

Ah, jetlag! I think Beth would have been fine if not for Ben. I wake up as the light builds in power, so I'm just peachy.

Ben had a short afternoon nap, about 2 hours (after 3 to 4 hours of sleep in the plane), and then went to bed around 7:30 pm Paris time. We were exhausted, figured he would be too. Lights out!

Ben wakes up at 11 pm and says, time to play! Beth got up with him and they laid there till 3 am or so.

I woke up at 8 am, ready for crepes! (which there don't seem to be any btw. I'm highly dissapointed.) Ben woke up at 11 am and puked.

That's right, he's been sick all morning, every half hour or so, poor lil guy. He seems to be better now though, knock on wood.

And now, some basic questions need answering. How do we find food? What, you say, you're in Paris, there's food everywhere! Touche. And yet...let me clarify, how do you find food if you have a 2 year old, a picky one, and if you want some semblance of a budget, and no car...and don't speak French. Now how do you get food smart guy!?

There's a grocery store, of sorts, about 3/4 of a mile away. It's situated below a clothing store, well I guess it's technically a clothing store with groceries in the basement. It's a small grocery store, with overpriced items...comparable to a copps stuck inside a miniature walgreens building.

Our apartment is great, except maybe for the shower. As you can see from the picture, European showers are sit-in-the-tub and pour water on yourself type things. A little ridiculous.

Which would explain some of the smells on the street. Also, everyone here smokes. Babies, dogs, statues. Everyone. OK, maybe not babies technically, but if they were out on the street they would get a comparable amount of second hand smoke.

Those top 2 (after Ben sleeping in his old bed) are the view out our windows (we have 3, 1 foot off the floor, 7 feet tall, that open inward to the outside, no screen) right, then left respectively. The next ones are living room, followed by kitchen, bathroom (x2), bedroom(yes, it's really that color) and ben's room.