Raining in Paris

first off : this message will most likely be a disaster because these keyboards are complety weird,, there is no QWERTY; instead there is AZERTY; the A and Q are switched; so is Z and W and all the number keys you must hit CTRL, and did i mention M is where "," should be arrrgghhh!!! anywqys,, So paris is like the best city anywhere; we are staying at hotel henri IV which is on isle de cite, almost spitting distance to Notre Dame and the louvre (sp). we have been here two days and so far: not a bad meal or any rude encounters, only nice people; great food and incredible architecture and history. We did find one ugly building in central paris but only one! everything else is incredible, really. something else that is great about paris , they have tons of motorcycles or rather mopeds; on par with london and they drive just as crazy here; i;ve seen harleys (minority), some old and a few new japan bikes and a lot of mopeds of various makes and even some old skool motorized bicycles and mopeds with roll cages; also tons of smart cars and tiny weird things. today we had great breakfeast of french bread and jam and cafè then walked around outside of the louvre (which is friggin huge, i mean huge!!!!) it would take days to see everything inside. someone decided it would be a good thing to put a huge pyramid in middle of the courtyard here, LAME. it totally ruins the atmosphere. [Speaking of the word friggin: we meet several people at the hostel in london who deserve mention; a long island transplant to sweden, he has been there for 8 years and for the most part looked and acted just like a swede except when saying 'long island' and a few other key phrases, then his accent came right out, pretty funny. also meet a kid from canada who used the following terms: 'friggin'; 'wicked'; 'awesome', usaully in the same sentence, you would swear he was from boston if not for lack of accent]. After that we took the metro to effiel tower. we both agreed with many parisians when they called it the asparagus. its pretty ugly. We plan on touring it tomorrow as well as doing a 4 hour bike tour of city since it was raining on and off while there. Next we hit the 'invalides' palace, an awesome golden topped palace which housed all of frances wounded veterans, this was no VA hospital. this was also the site of the start of french revolution. Lets see,,,, meet some nice folks from new york, had crepes for dinner, slowing learning key french words (and when i become proficient, we will be leaving for spain) and talked to a petite crazy paris local (who may have been a pickpocket setup) and a really nice couple during the most expensive meal we;ve had (it was quite good and they were a huge help with ordering) forgot to mention ; we took a sweet 2 hour train ride through english and french countryside and went through chunnel (just pitch black, yawn). thanks for reading and kept those comments coming and watch flickr photo page for constant photo uploads (which drag behind cause it takes so long to upload). Bon Swa (good night)