Final Weeks

It’s nice to say that this time next month we will be home again. No, in fact, it’s a dream to say that. I cannot wait. We are both in need of some serious rest and relaxation. It’s just not possible to get that here. In our ongoing quest to countdown every major milestone until we get home, we now have only about 10 days remaining in Paris. The rest of our time will be spent in B&Bs where, hopefully, we can get a decent night’s rest. I won’t go into our apartment troubles this week (see below) but man oh man. Give me a break. We actually had a fairly productive day today. To start things off we went to our favorite English language book store and looked around. We then wandered over to the Forum Les Halles in search of either 1) an aspirateur or 2) a fan. Finding nothing under 40 euros, we walked to BHV next to Hotel de Ville and did find a decent fan for 20 euros. I am hoping this will make enough noise to drown out screaming children and crazy old ladies WATERING THE GARDEN AT MIDNIGHT WHEN CERTAIN NEIGHBORS HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 7:30 AM. So, then I grabbed a train out to Orsay to pick up my final paycheck and sign my final paperwork with ISCIO. They gave me more money this month for who know what reason. But we are now hopeful that we can bring home enough money to put down on an apartment. That would be great. We’ll probably have to get something cheaper than the place we had last year, but I think we can get a decent summer deal if we start renting around June 1. Boy, a real, sane apartment. Where we can look in the closet and compare it with the space we live in now. This evening we went to the Louvre where free admission was offered for all those under age 26. This was nice, but one thing about the Louvre is you need to be ready to do battle when you go in there. We got burnt our pretty quick so we only stayed an hour and a half or so. We have now seen most all parts of the museum, which is great. My parents will be here in the morning on Thursday. I hope they are able to get some rest on the plane. I have a feeling they will be pretty out of it when they get here, but hopefully by the weekend they will be in shape. By the way, this is just wonderful.