paris

Posting from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The tubes are very clogged here, so I'll make this short. We flew all night and go to the Louvre at about 7:30 local time in a fog so thick we couldn't hardly even see the end of the wing. As in, the only way we knew we were near the ground was when the tires hit the pavement.

We had about ten hours to kill, so Allyson and I decided to take the train into the city. We ate lunch at the Louvre and wandered through the Egyptian Antiquities wing before making a pilgrimage to see the Mona Lisa. The Louvre is vast, and I found the architecture almost more eye-catching than the artwork.

After that we sat on a bench on the banks of the Seine for about half an hour (1 Seine == .5 Thames in width) and watched the riverboats go by before deciding that we were exhausted (we last slept when?) and wanted to just go back to the airport and park ourselves until our flight goes.

Which is what we're doing right now.

On the upside, the strike in Israel is over, so by midnight central Europeam time tonight we should hopefully be landing in Tel Aviv, and we can get some sleep.

alive in tel aviv

Well, we made it. Eventually. The flight was delayed two hours getting out of Paris for no good reason that we could discern, but I'm sitting here and looking out the window at the placid blue waters of the Meditteranean. We finally got in at 2 AM local time, were at the hotel by 3, and now it's 9:47 AM, so I'm still more than a little fried, but... here we are.

The hotel wants twenty bucks a day for internets, so I won't be checking in much. But we're alive, we're here, and by any and all possible gods we're going to salvage a vacation out of this yet.

I hope those of you in Seattle are surviving in the face of the chilly doom.