tenlittlebullets | Paris Day 2

So, a slightly less cranky update now that our luggage status has changed to "RECEIVED AT AIRPORT / DELIVERY PROCESS INITIATED." First of all, when I said the apartment is gorgeous I meant it. I was half-expecting some bare-bones 'furnished' apartment with a bed and a few chairs and basic pots and pans in the kitchen, but this place is so obviously lived-in. Fully-stocked kitchen, stuff in the fridge and the drawers, lots of shelves full of books (eeeee), and the owner even left us some hotel-sized shampoo bottles and three or four maps of Paris. And it's on the top floor with a terrace, which means amazing views of the city.

Slowly recuperating from jetlag--I spent a seeming eternity lying awake in bed last night, even after the drunk people at the accordion bar across the street stopped singing (XD), but I must've fallen asleep eventually. We've been squandering precious hours waiting for the fuckheads at US Airways to deliver our luggage (did you know they're responsible for 40% of the DOT's lost-luggage complaints? yeah.), but at this point I'm about ready to go out and enjoy the city and say "fuck it, they can leave it on the doorstep."

Am also feeling much more human after a grocery-store run and an obscene quantity of tea. Food is good for the soul, yo. Had a nice walk through the Parc de Belleville this morning too.

Tomorrow is Free Museum Day, so we're going to try the Louvre. But since everyone else in the city knows the Louvre is free tomorrow too, we might suck it up and save it for another day and go to Versailles or something. And then on Monday we meet

misatheredpanda for the Grand Hugo Tour and lunch at the Café Procope and possibly a picnic.

We went downtown yesterday night around sunset and--yes, central Paris is just as wonderful and captivating as I remember. I thought it was the exaggeration of memory, but there really is something about this city that makes you fall in love with it.

I want to stay forever.