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I've been fidgety and spacey all day and couldn't figure out why. Then it suddenly dawned on me at lunch, while flipping through a tourist guide, that today is the start of my Paris countdown. Three weeks from today Dylan and I will be en route to Paris (Freckles will be staying at the Seattle Canine Club).

We are going with no agenda, other than checking in at our modest, but hopefully cool hotel in the Latin Quarter (Minerve Hotel). We have a running wish list of things we'd like to do, but we won't stress out if we can't get to everything. I'd like to check out the market on Rue Mouffetard, the Notre Dame, Pont Neuf bridge, and Montmatre. Dylan wants to go to Musee Rodin. Other than that we just want to sit at cafes and eat good food and enjoy the sights. I'm sure our 6 days/5 nights will go too fast, but I'm glad we have to opportunity to go, thanks to low airfare and visiting during a lull in the tourist season.

Since I've already started reincorporating cheese into my diet in preperation of the French cuisine, the only thing left for to us to do before leaving for Paris is to brush up on French through downloaded audio lessons and flip through a gigantic, intimidating beast of a book called The Big Blue Book of French Verbs.

Oh, we have to LOTS of film to buy too. Anyone have suggestions for traveling with film?