Back in Paris

Katie and I are back in Paris, which feels a bit like coming home. It's nice to understand what people around me are saying again. On the other hand, we have typical Parisian weather here - lots of clouds and no sun. The sun in Spain was amazingly luxurious.

In Madrid we saw three museums: the Museo Reina Sofia (easily my favorite museum so far - lots of cool surrealist artwork and it was organized very logically), the Museo del Prado (like the Louvre of Spain) and the Museo de Jamon, where we ate lunch. Yes folks, we at lunch at the museum of ham. In the afternoon we went walking in this enormous park thing in the middle of Madrid that has a pond/lake/body of water in the middle of it. We rented a rowboat for 45 minutes and paddled our way in circles. It was lovely!

The night train from Madrid to Paris was pretty cool. Katie was unbelievably excited to sleep on a train. I cannot describe it for you. You have to see it to believe it. We shared our compartment with a Spanish woman who works in Paris. She arrived after us, and when she walked in, Katie and I had our luggage all over the chairs, there were open jars of peanut butter and honey, and we were halfway through eating an almond cake. In other words, her first impression of us was at our sloppiest moment.