Almost foiled...

Well we hit a minor snag with Paris that had me midly panicking. First off, Justin's business trip to Brussels was cancelled. Since I had already purchased my (non-refundable) ticket Justin was able to get the time off and come too. We just cut Brussels out altogether and will spend all 6 days in Paris. Which gives us 2 extra days to see everything (no 20-minute Louvre run, Mom!). Second snag - the Rugby World Cup is going on right now in France and France is playing Ireland while we're there in Paris. So...no hotel rooms. I've been frantically surfing the web and most places are available the first few days, but not Saturday night (the night of the match - which, I actually looked at getting tickets but they're minimum is 595 Euros each ($825) so that won't be happening. Maybe we'll just go to a bar and watch the match. Well today I finally got a place that had availability so WE'RE OFFICIALLY BOOKED! We'll be staying at the Daunou Opera Hotel which is right in the middle of the city near the Louvre, the Place de Vendôme & L'Opera. I even booked us a shuttle to/from the airport to make it simple. Now I just have to map out what to do!!! Thanks for the suggestions - keep them coming!!!

The weather has started to ease up a bit (or I'm just adapting better). Justin and I got caught in a downpour in Wan Chai with no umbrellas the other night (we didn't see it coming - it was cloudless all day!) So we ran under awnings until we caught a cab - at which point a prostitute tried to get in the front seat and then smiled at us and said, "ooops, sorry!!!" and giggled on the sidewalk with a bunch of her friends. Cute.

I saw "Hairspray" on Tuesday and love-love-LOVED it. I kinda spazzed out a bit that night when Justin got home and knocked over a water bottle and banged the ceiling doing my dance moves. What can I say? You can't stop the beat!

I started reading "Middlesex" also this week - and its really interesting. Its about a hermaphrodite and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for Fiction.