Hi - it's a rainy day in Paris. We have Mother's Day in France today. I got in my now-routine Sunday morning run, had a pleasant breakfast at the Residhome (weekends are so quiet, weekdays are pretty much chaos), then went to the "American Church". It is your normal historic Paris church, right on the Seine near the Hotel des Invalides. But, as the name indicates, it's "American". It's all in English. The minister sounds like he's from the mid-west. There were quite a few people there, a large number student-age. It was sort of a "praise and glory" type of contemporary service, which is a bit different for me, but it was still good.Afterwards, I walked along the river on the left bank - a busy place, then over to Notre Dame. Stopped at a Monument to Jewish Deportee's on the island. It started to rain, so I found a cafe on the right bank to have a beer and watch Roger Federer win the French Open. I continued up past the French National Archives into the Marais to get a better look around the area where my apartment will be. It's pretty quiet on "my" rue Chabon section. Mostly, there are Chinese purse and bag shops! I did see a few galleries, one with a jazz band playing inside. Walk a block or so away and you get to bigger streets with a bunch stuff. Hopefully I'll get into the place this week before I go back to the US.
I headed back to Le Defence (which took about 40 minutes - so I'm guessing that will be my commute time). I was beat, so I picked up some take out from Marwan at l' Olivia, my friendly neighborhood Lebanese restaurant (see picture). It's been my lifeline here.
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