We made it!  Paris, hotel balcony, great view over the Latin Quarter...we're feeling much better about life after some looong looong travel days (and nights).  Memo to selves:  never fly out of any major airport after or in midst of graduation week/weekends of - apparently - nearly every university in the nation.  Nothing friendly about those skies...

On a more cheerful note:  in the last 48 hours, in aggregate we have consumed champagne,  two large bags of Ghirardelli Square chocolates, a Godiva candy bar, two large crepes "avec oeufs et fromage" (and let me assure you that they don''t go light on the "fromage" over here, nor on the butter saturating the crepes), a nutella crepe (why stop at "savory" when you can also have sweet?), and both a coppa and a cornetto of gelato.  Oh , and some organic strawberries.  But I (Juliet) walked from the hotel to the crepe stand, and then the 20 extra meters over to the gelato store, so I'm pretty sure it's all a wash at this point.

Vive la France!