Worn out
I am exhausted! I've spent the last five days walking all over Paris, up the hill of Montmartre and down the marble staircases of the Louvre. I've walked the gardens of Louis XIV at Versailles and I've walked the dirty hallways of the labrynthian Paris metro.
Christy has thoroughly enjoyed her whirlwind tour of Paris, and she was able to get her Russian visa renewed for one year (the real purpose of her trip). The two of us have very similar interests or vacation styles--whatever it is that means we are in sync with our ideas of what to see or do next. With Christy twisting my arm only slightly, we got Starbucks Caramel macchiatos three days in a row at one of the few Starbucks in France.
Yesterday we came to the home of Henry and Karen Linderman, AG missionaries in the Paris area. We are spending a few days with them. Karen is the ultimate hostess, fixing great homestyle meals for us, and we've even gotten to help decorate her tree (since she was late getting it up this year). Henry's 90 year old mother is visiting from the States, as well as the Linderman's college-age daughter.
Tomorrow, we'll go back into downtown Paris for their church service, before taking the train back to Bordeaux in the afternoon.
I heard on the French news that over a million people will be traveling out of Paris on the trains tomorrow (Christmas Eve). I'm a little nervous about the 500,000 that will be leaving out of the station we've got to use! I don't like crowds that much, so I'm hoping that most of those masses will go out on earlier trains than ours!
Either way, we'll be back in my apartment tomorrow night, so I'll post again and hopefully include some photos.
Christy has thoroughly enjoyed her whirlwind tour of Paris, and she was able to get her Russian visa renewed for one year (the real purpose of her trip). The two of us have very similar interests or vacation styles--whatever it is that means we are in sync with our ideas of what to see or do next. With Christy twisting my arm only slightly, we got Starbucks Caramel macchiatos three days in a row at one of the few Starbucks in France.
Yesterday we came to the home of Henry and Karen Linderman, AG missionaries in the Paris area. We are spending a few days with them. Karen is the ultimate hostess, fixing great homestyle meals for us, and we've even gotten to help decorate her tree (since she was late getting it up this year). Henry's 90 year old mother is visiting from the States, as well as the Linderman's college-age daughter.
Tomorrow, we'll go back into downtown Paris for their church service, before taking the train back to Bordeaux in the afternoon.
I heard on the French news that over a million people will be traveling out of Paris on the trains tomorrow (Christmas Eve). I'm a little nervous about the 500,000 that will be leaving out of the station we've got to use! I don't like crowds that much, so I'm hoping that most of those masses will go out on earlier trains than ours!
Either way, we'll be back in my apartment tomorrow night, so I'll post again and hopefully include some photos.