My French Family

Laura, Bonnie, and Me in Montreuil

It's been a very busy past three days, and I've had a hard time compartmentalizing everything into two solid posts, so here's the third and second to last post from Paris.

After my dog inspired trip to the Louvre on Thursday, I rushed back home for a short nap, and then took a subway train to a suburb of Paris called Montreuil, for a visit with a few of my cousins. My grandfather immigrated to Buenos Aires from Germany or Poland (we don't really know which) in the early 1900's before World War II, and although we don't know too much about his history, we do know he left a cousin here in Europe, who eventually made his way to France. And voila, we now have family in Paris.

I had a great time with Bonnie, her daughter Laura, Laura's daughter Emanuelle, and Laura's partner Valerie. We had wonderful Japanese take-out for dinner, and made plans for Laura and Valu to visit us in Bonn. I'm always trying to get people to come out and visit... the more the merrier!

After dinner, I made my way back to Montparnasse on the 6 train that got delayed because of the stray dog I wrote about yesterday on House&Hound. After fretting about the dog for an hour I finally fell asleep and woke up yesterday to another absolutely beautiful day in Paris...