Last night we met Mrs., Heather and Kyle Morse for dinner. They're in town for 10 days and asked if we could meet. We met them at their hotel and found a little restaurant for dinner. Kyle tried frog legs for the first time - reminded me of our visits to Lompnieu. I had a great French Onion Soup, which warmed me up from being out in the rain all afternoon. Yesterday afternoon in between class and our tour Monique and I walked home to meet Kate and Laura. Unfortunately we had forgotten our key, but I assumed they would be home - they weren't, so I wasn't able to change. But we hadn't needed the umbrella on the walk home, and without thinking, I left it at our apartment door. We made it back to the school just in time for the tour (and the rain to start to pick up). I felt really bad, but somebody gave Monique and I an umbrella to use. On the way home we took the metro, and were happy to make it home faster than usual. Anyways, we had a good dinner and sat and talked at the restaurant till 10:30. We then walked by Notre Dame, and all the lights in town were starting to come on. It was so gorgeous - our first time to see the city all lit up. Walking back over the Seine and looking down the river was beautiful! No wonder it's called the City of Lights. After we got home Monique and Kate went out for Gelato and ate it down by the river.
We are really excited for the World Cup. It's a really big deal over here - posters and advertisements all over the place. We listen to the world cup song - Wavin' Flag (great song!), a few times everyday and Laura is making a music video to the song. That means that everywhere we go, we're filming random places and things we see to add to the video. Tomorrow at the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) there is going to be the opening ceremony shown on a huge screen that they're setting up. So a group of people from school are planning on going together - this will definitely be in our music video.
Today is halfway through our time in Paris - really sad! We are planning on picking up the pace on things we do. Because we've seen a lot, but have some many more places we want to see. We think tomorrow we are going to watch of of FIFA, then go to the Louvre again (then probably watch more soccer). Saturday we're thinking Versailles if it doesn't rain.