Sunday, August 10th
- Last day in the fabulous extended stay hotel (NOT. <About the fabulous part. I wish we were joking about staying there. Let me give you a nice taste of what this great hotel had to offer: suspicious blood looking stains, even more suspicious stains from a leaky AC unit, burn marks and holes in the comforter, a nice mildew smell, a nice smokey smell – nicer than the mildew smell TRUST US, rumors of prostitution happenings, and a fabulous breakfast of…granola bars and muffins.)
- Our LAST AMERICAN DINNER! Burgers and milkshakes with Rachel, my ALLEX partner in crime this rotation. J
Monday, August 11th
- We arrive in Paris at around 8:30 in the morning (aka 1:30 AM Houston time).
- Got our bags and taxi ride to the apartment.
- Lugged ALL of our three ~20 kg (44 pounds) large suitcases and four carryon bags up 6 flights of a beautiful stairwell only to discover…it wasn’t our stairwell.
- Carried the suitcases back down (actually there was a really creepy elevator shaft that could hold two suitcases) 6 floors.
- Carried the luggage back up 6 flights of stairs into our nice little apartment (~200 square feet, plus or minus some with pictures to come).
- Unpacked and then walked around the city with Rachel and stumbled upon the Eiffel Tower.
- Stuart and I were pooped so we came home and took a nap.
- One of an older ALLEX’s friends is working in Paris so we met up with her and her two French friends for dinner near the metro stop Bastille (first real French meal: fish and steamed veggies and beef Carpaccio for Stuart – very thin slices of pretty much raw steak).
Tuesday, August 12th
- Tuesday we slept in (a whole 13 hours for Stuart!).
- We ventured into the city to get some French SIM cards (<success!!!).
- As a reward – savoury crepes on Rue Mouffetard (egg, cheese, ham, and chicken crepes – we’re talking like a whole bag of mozzarella on these crepes!).
- Our first adventure in the local grocery store
(also a success!!! – But mind you, we have to carry these groceries up the 150
stairs to our apartment).
Wednesday, August 13th
- First day of work for Stevie!!!! Including coffee- of course, lunch with Rachel’s coworkers in the canteen (cafeteria), and editing an English training module.
- Stuart made a lovely dinner of spaghetti.
Thursday, August 14th
- Another day, another euro. None of my (Stevie’s) team was at the office as tomorrow is a Holy day/Holiday off here in Paris. Nevertheless, I was able to get a lot of work done in a very quaint and quiet office.
- Some more grocery shopping (in case nothing is opening this weekend to get some food).
- TBD
More to come later!!! We will post some pictures on either Google+ or
Facebook and let you know!
Thanks for reading. Hopefully we will have some more details and entertaining stories for you all from this three day weekend upon us.
Bises (hugs and kisses),
Stevie and Stuart
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