This morning, I was up at 9:00 to phone the UK and speak with the property owner of the apartment we'll rent when visiting London in December. Good on the account that we got the details worked out and confirmed the apartment, and also avoided another late morning of sleeping in!
We now have apartments in both London and Munich confirmed, which will take us up to December 30th. After that, we're not sure where we're staying, and when we'll be staying there... very exciting!... and a little stressful. We're just about to purchase a Eurail pass to travel within Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France, so our future destinations will have to be somewhere within these countries. I'm pushing for Lucerne, Venice and Rome, but it will have to be a group decision once Mom joins us at the beginning of December.
I had a bunch of work to get finished this morning to get the software updated before the guys in Houston got into the office. We also had our Friday morning meeting scheduled for 3pm. I want to pause here and point out that I "love" the time difference here. In B.C., I would have to drag myself out of bed at 5:30am to get ready for these meetings. what a difference! However, Carlos was a no-show for the meeting, and after waiting for a few hours to discuss outstanding things with him, I decided to give up, and we went out for a walk instead.
Today we headed North, the only direction we haven't really traveled a great distance yet. (http://g.co/maps/9w39e) As we got closer to Place de la Republique we realized that the area was a bit more rundown. While we still felt safe, we were glad that we hadn't gotten an apartment in this area. There were a few interesting statues, and an interesting arc (similar to the Arc de Triomphe) but much smaller of course (http://tinyurl.com/3q9knk2).
At this point, we began our way back to the apartment, with another quick stop at the supermarche for dinner. We've now been here nearly two weeks, and have yet to eat at a restaurant. I've mentioned to Mom that it feels like we're eating on food stamps... we're always just buying staples from the grocery store for our meals. Breakfasts are mainly cereal, yogurt and fruit. Lunches are sandwiches (PB&J, sometimes meat), sometimes pasta, and dinner is generally pasta. While the apartment does have a kitchen unit, the cooking utensils are minimal, and our spice selection consists of salt and pepper. It doesn't make sense to stock up on the usual spices and utensils we are used to, so we'll just make do with what we have. I'm now very confident we'll both loose some weight while we're here, which is never a bad thing. Let's just hope we don't gain it all back in the 2 weeks we're in Germany with all the beer and bratwurst available there.
We headed back to the apartment and by this time it was after 9:00pm. Nicholas went to sleep and Laura uncorked her first bottle of wine. 2 glasses later, she had to admit she's a bit of a lush, but that's ok. We both relaxed and she watched a movie while I got some work done.
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