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There’s been a lot of posts this week. Are you sure you’ve read them all?

Photos from days six and seven of the Paris trip are now online at the same place as the rest of photos. We also took some video while we were there, but I’m not sure how much of it I’m planning to use. The photos do a fairly good job of summing up our adventures.

Anyway, Jenelle was in Illinois yesterday with cousins Gina and Katie, hanging out and doing some shopping. She bought a new TV stand at Ikea. We still have to fix it up a bit so that the cable box doesn’t hang over the edge, but it’s looking better than our old one. Here’s a comparison for you:

Before:

After:

The posts keep coming here at Ben and Jenelle’s WebJournal. Head back over to our Shutterfly page for even more photos from Paris. Enjoy!

Since everyone in the family is going the way of Shutterfly, I’ve set up a Paris photo album in my Shutterfly account. The address to look at my albums is easy to remember — http://ibenj.shutterfly.com. I’ve only got one day’s worth of photos up there right now, but I’ll have more up later this week. Here’s a journal entry for you:

Dimanche, le 9 octobre (Sunday, October 9)
We left Chicago on Saturday evening. The 7-hour time change got us to Paris on Sunday morning. After taking a bus from the airport to the Arc De Triomphe, we walked a few blocks to the Elysees Union Hotel, our home for the week to come.

After a brief nap, we headed south toward the Eiffel Tower (which we could see from our balcony). We walked around the Palais De Chaillot and the Trocadero Gardens, a great place from which to take photos of the tower. There were plenty of tourists around, including a German couple who asked us to take their picture. We obliged, and they took one of us.

We eventually crossed the Seine and walked underneath the tower, our digital camera clicking away. Things were so busy today that the top floor of the tower was closed. It didn’t matter to us, as we weren’t in any hurry to go up the tower. We walked through the Parc Du Champ De Mars, which is the green area just to the south.

We eventually got hungry, and we ate a cafe called Le Royal Tour, only a block or two away from the tower. Jenelle had a tomato salad, and I had the “steak frites” (steak with fries). Not bad for our first meal. On our way back to the hotel, we stopped at a boulangerie (bakery) and picked up a baguette — yum. We also visited a nearby market and bought some fruit.

Though there was still plenty of daylight, we were tired from the time change, so we relaxed at our hotel for the rest of the evening. We noticed that the Eiffel Tower has lights which make it sparkle. The effect could be observed every night for the first ten minutes of any hour from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. — there’s a picture of it, and I’ll try and get a video up as well.

That’s all for now!

Hi all!

Yesterday was the LONGEST Saturday ever. We got up around 8:30 a.m. Paris time, did a few small errands and then took a bus to the airport. Our flight left at 2:20 p.m. Paris time, and arrived at 4:00 p.m. Chicago time (11:00 p.m. in Paris). After taking the shuttle back to Wisconsin, picking up our mail, and unpacking, we relaxed for a few hours. We went to bed at about 10:30 p.m., which is 5:30 a.m. Paris time. Besides a short nap or two on the plane, we were awake for 21 hours. The strange thing is that we couldn’t sleep much past 6:30 a.m. this morning. Oh well. 🙂

I have over 250 photos and about a half hour of video to look over — I’ll try and get some of it online soon.

Also, on Wednesday, October 12: Happy Birthday, Laura!

Wednesday, September 28: It’s a girl! Welcome, Lily Grace Isaacson! More Info
Thursday, September 29: Happy Birthday, Hunter!
Saturday, October 1: Happy Birthday, Lucas!
Tuesday, October 4: Happy Birthday, Aunt Lisa!

There will be lots of exciting things coming to this blog — just not right now. I promise more info soon. Probably not tomorrow, probably not the next day, but soon. 🙂