Paris cont.....

Just a note: blogging and iPads are not meant to go together!! This has been ridiculously hard. But that's not what you want to hear about.....after arriving in Paris yesterday morning we got through customs, grabbed our suitcases and headed into the city. After one wrong train and several wrong turns through the Marais neighborhood we're staying in (dragging our suitcases and looking ridiculously touristy) we finally found our apartment. Francois met us at the buildings door and informed us the lift is broken so we hauled our 50 lb. Suitcases up a six story steep spiral staircase to our apartment. It was worth all the trouble, we love it! It's a little studio with a Murphy bed in a really quaint part of town that is full of cafes and shops and locals. We then broke one of the all-important jet lag rules and took a nap. I know you're not supposed to but what can I say? We're rebels. When we woke up we went for a walk down to the river, ate a pastry on a bridge and then walked through Notre Dame cathedral. They were having mass at the time, it was so beautiful to hear the Priests singing and chanting echo off those enormous ceilings. After that we bought some crepes and a Coke from a street vendor and walked down to eat by the river. We saw a rat down there just like in Ratatoille! I've got to go to sleep! You can see what we did today on the pics below. We were looking at the louvre paintings to find pics of the kiddies. We found one of the girls (below) but we're still looking for the boys. It has been a little surreal so far but an amazing experience. I miss my kids!! I feel a little like Rapunzel in Tangled right after she leaves the tower with Flynn: ecstatic one second and ready to break down and cry the next.....