Ahh Paris

Today is our final (4th) day and night in Paris. Paris has a plethora of fantastic museums, monuments, and beautiful places to kick back and enjoy. There is no way we can accompish everything we would like to. This post will be brief since we want to explore more of the wonderful sights Paris has to offer. Today will be the Opera, Montmartre, the Sacre Coeur, and hit the Rex Club where the famous dj Laurent Garnier will be spinning.

So far this trip has been even more profound than I (Russ) had hoped. Traveling to 4 different countries with different languages, cultures, cuisines, and toilets all within a week has been quite an amazing, challenging journey. Lesley's ability to learn new foreign languages is amazing. I too am enjoying the opportunity to learn and speak many new languages. Lesley's been a wonderful, (mostly ;) patient teacher when it comes to helping me pronounce the words in these foreign languages correctly. (footnote from Lesley: I haven't been very patient at all; he is covering that detail up)

It's amazing to see how healthy people live in Europe with one exception...smoking cigarettes. There have been many instances where Lesley and I have had to leave or avoid a bar, train car, or certain smokers because we can't stand the excessive, constant, sometimes opaque smoke. So many young people in Europe look beautiful however many of the older people look extremely wrinkled and old in the face. We think this is attributed to the cigarette smoking.

Besides all the delicious (and well priced) wine and bubbly in France I love its history. I've always been a fan of European history and I'm learning so much being surrounded by so many museums, monuments, and cathedrals.

Did we mention how fantastic the food has been throughout Europe. It's a good thing we walk several kilometers a day which burns off all of the calories from all of the rich foods we're enjoying.

We also have one picture from Ibiza to share with you. Our friend Dana found this online.
http://www.ibiza-voice.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/9039/sort/1/size/medium/cat/613/page/

We have so much more to say about Paris but right now we need to do it instead of write about it, since we have to leave here tomorrow.

Au revoir,
Russ and Lesley