Here I Am

Alright, we're still in Paris having a blasty blast. Read Becca's blog, shown on the last entry, to read about the interesting events that occurred at our first hotel which led us to this wired, clean and, most importantly, bug-free hotel that I sit in now. The train from Luxembourg to Paris was a trip too (literally and figuratively) as we had no idea that we had assigned seats on the TGV until an angry crowd (mob even?) stood in front of our seats and sweetly demanded that we vacate them. We acted quickly, gathered our backpacks and started walking... and walking... and walking until about 12 trains later when we finally found our correct seats. "where are our suitcases?" someone innocently poses, "hm, back at the wrong seats". This interaction concluded with Hillary and my excursion, like salmons swimming upstream, to get back to the old seats, gather 4 pieces of luggage and rolling them back to the correct seats. This sounds easy enough but when this maneuver is attempted while a train completely full of passengers traveling at 200mph is taking turns like a bat out of a hell and children are free to frolic in the aisles because they don't have real seats, then let's just say that Hillary and I personally experienced what it would be like to be characters in a video game where the goal is to avoid touching or rolling over as many Parisians as possible. I think I got to intermediate level. Read Becca's blog to discover what awaited us at our final resting destination... (http://www.beccarrow.blogspot.com/).

So, everything is going well here and I thank God for keeping us safe (from crazy French motorcyclists who believe that honking their horns at someone walking on the crosswalk will magically make them disappear... needless to say pedestrians do not get the right-of-way in Paris) and watching over our domestic situation by providing two great hostels in Brussels and Luxembourg and providing an out it in the form of my parents when our accomodation plans for Paris were unsettleing. I'll post some pictures from 1. Bruges 2. Luxembourg and 3. Cathedral ceiling in Paris. Keep us in your prayers and I'll keep you updated on our whereabouts.

love, b.