well, you may think he77 if freezing over, I'm posting. After our journal name has proved obsolete, no less. I would post more or get my own solo journal again, but truly, there's been not much to report, and not much newsworthy. Ankit has already proven himself as much as possible at the new job, and works 12 hour days as the norm. I'm missing ( Read more... )

Just a quick post from NYC to let you know we're doing fine. Since most of you have kept up on the story, we flew in last Tuesday and Ankit started his new job last Wednesday... I apartment hunted Weds-Friday, we chose a place together on Saturday, and we're moving to Jersey City to be there next month. I am furiously hunting a job and am getting ( Read more... )

Yes, I never updated about the trip back home. We've been busy with the holidays and whatnot.

So here's something cute for you. Photo taken at my company holiday party.


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Leisurely awakening to this day and our beautiful balcony view. We ate up the rest of our cereal, then decided to return the car since driving would be a pain and the car rental place was within view of our hotel... still took us half an hour to return because of ONE WAY AND DO NOT ENTER streets (next to police stations, so we couldn't cheat, even ( Read more... )

We got a lovely start to this day by having scrumptious breakfast gathered and prepared by Emmanuel. After lounging over that for awhile, we took a look around at Pierre Salinger's JFK photo books and saw a bunch of his novels, and touched one of the Emmys :) They also have a little museum set up that has a lot of his keepsakes, press credentials ( Read more... )

Hit the road this morning and headed to Avignon. Avignon is one of the old walled medeival villages that still has the city wall pretty intact (as well as the moat, no water or gators though)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon read about the immense history of this town. We ( Read more... )

Woke up to a glorious morning. Walked around, took some pics of the lovely ivy covered houses and stopped in the boulangerie for PAIN AU CHOCOLAT, awww yeah. Got on the road and headed to Pont Du Gard, which is the big draw in this region, it's a Roman aqueduct, an engineering masterpiece of Roman times. Read more... )

We got up on this Monday morning, arranged suitcases so we'd only have to carry the smaller ones, and left the rest with our new pals at the Hotel Claude Bernard as we checked out. Went to the train station and got hooked up to go to Gare Austerlitz so we could cross the Seine and get to Gare de Lyon to go get our train. Navigated through the ( Read more... )

We got going on this morning in our usual slow speed, stopping for sustenance... got back to the train to head to Les Invalides to begin our journey. We took a nice walk (and tons of pics, of course) headed to the area where Napoleon's buried and wandered around there... then walked up to the Champs Elysees. Chicagoans, think of this as Paris's ( Read more... )

This day was Nov 11, celebrated as Veterans Day in the States and Armistice Day in Europe. We got up and headed out for a nice walk to the Louvre. Gawked at more lovely architecture along the way. We stopped on the way for the "sidewalk cafe" experience you've just got to have in France, sat outside and had crepes and tea "au lait." The ( Read more... )