Paris in the Fall; No More Saturdays

I spent Wednesday, Thursday and most of Friday in Paris with Joseph at Cecile's mom, Mammie chou's apartement. Cecile was at the hospital with Thomas as he had his tonsils removed, and the older kids were staying wth friends. Thomas was so excited to have his mom all to himself for a few days haha.

Cecile's parents live in an apartement over-looking the entire city of Paris. They actually have two apartments, and I stayed by myself in the one across the hall from their main one. I could see the Eiffel Tower from my living room window and the skyline view from my bedroom balcony was beautiful.

On Thursday Mammie chou took me and Joseph to a museum. Cite De L'architecture & Du Partimoine; a museum of monuments. It was really quite fascinating and I learned alot. It's about a ten minute walk from the apartement complex to the Eiffel Tower, pretty awesome!

On Saturday I went with Antoine, Mathilde, and Paul to Paris to do some sight-seeing. We went to the Saint-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. W got gyros for lunch and ate them on the Seine River (amazing!). After we walked around for a bit, we stopped to watch a group of percussionists rock out, that was incredible. We were heading back to the car when we stopped to check out the hospital museum. It was so fascinating, I love museums. I had such a good time that day!

Over the past week everything has been pretty routine. But, everyday has been kind of bittersweet for me. This was my last week here, and it' past by so fast. I kept on running into all these 'lasts'. And I keep thinking that 'this time next week I won't be here'. As excited as I am to go back and see my family :), it makes me sad to think about leaving :(

I finished reading Prince Caspian to Paul and Mathilde, they are both really into the series and I love reading to them. We started in on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader yesterday, but I doubt we'll be able to read twelve chapters by tomorrow's end. Bummer!

Tonight was very special. After getting the kids fed, read and put to bed, Antoine, Cecile and myself had Sushi for dinner. SO delicious! They also bought me some presents and I was so touched. We had some really good conversation and it was good to relax with them. After dinner I got my computer and uploaded a whole bunch of pictures that Antoine took over the summer, so my photo library has just expanded and I'm thrilled.

I'm spending the evening packing. I'm going to put on some music, put on some PJ's and try and get most everything knocked out before tomorrow; my last day here.

I hope this finds you well!

Yours,

A

P.S. This is is short movie Antoine put together from our trip to Eymet. It is seriously hilarious. ENJOY!