Quick Highlights from France:

1. I went running with two of my sisters the morning after I arrived in Paris. We ran from where we were staying near the Sorbonne University down to the Seine River, along the banks and over the bridge in front of the Louvre, into the courtyard of the Louvre, back out along the opposite bank of the Seine to Notre Dame Cathedral and back up to Place de la Sorbonne. About 3 miles in just about 30 minutes... it was sprinkling lightly and beautiful.

2. I hiked in the Alps for about 2 hours... gained aproximately 800-1000 vertical feet (starting from 5400 feet) in about 1.5 miles... VERY VERY steep paths. The views were awesome and the trip back down was fun.

3. I ate all SORTS of wonderful french bread, pastries, wine, coffee, crepes, etc... and gained exactly nothing, nada, zip, zero, zilch!

4. The wedding was fabulous (3 days long).

5. The french cook the HELL out of everything meat or vegitable related which I didn't enjoy much... but ah well... I had bread!!!

6. Jet Lag is a sucky sucky thing.

oh yeah... and:

7. My French brother told me that he almost didn't recognize me because I'd melted since he last saw me. (same time my "before" picture was taken) That was pretty cool.

Posted by Lexy at March 23, 2004 09:51 AM