bon ani!!

oui oui! we are in paris! warning: if there are odd characters or poorly spelled words here blame it on the keyboard!!

we arrived to paris yesterday around 4.30pm and took the metro to our hotel in porte doree. bit of an adventure finding the right metro line and then our hotel, but now we are more aquainted with the system. we checked in to our teensy hotel room and then crashed for a couple hours...no sleeping on the train as there were 3 "chatty" children in our car! our hotel sits above the metro so we hear it rumble by every 5 minutes; similar to a place we stayed at in london a few years ago!

anyhow, we got ahold of our friends from san francisco (seth and cara) who are also here for new years and met them at notre dame, then went for dinner at a random italian place and ended up closing the place down. they just got engaged while here - hurrah!!

this morning i headed downstairs to have breakfast with our other friends (erika, heidi, and tony) who are here from seattle and staying at this hotel too. then wandered the streets to find a drugstore and boulangerie for baguettes and pastries. my french is awful and i keep lapsing into spanish, but so far we have managed (though we now have 3 types of cold and cough medicine as i couldnt figure out what we really needed...!)

poor nate is still not feeling well, and i fear i may be getting something too, but we will try to rally onward into 2008!! our plan is to meet up with the SF folks again tonight and see where the evening takes us - probably to the champs elysees.

xoxoxo and happy new year to all!! can,t wait to see you all soon!!!