End of our first Week!

We are coming up on the end of our first week in Pontlevoy, and we already feel like we have been living here for months. Our team has split up into two groups to conduct research, and our group took a morning visit to the Tourism Office in Blois to interview the staff there. The Office is right across the street from the Chateau Blois, and we couldn't resist snapping a few touristy photos ourselves! We think that weather.com might be inaccurate for this area, because it keeps predicting rain when the sun outside is shining down. We reconvened with the other research group afterwards to conduct a few phone interviews, but later tonight we will be on the train to visit Paris for the weekend!

We've gotten a "mini-group" pass for the train and are very excited about our low fares. We're also very excited because we'll be celebrating the birthdays of two of our team members, Lindsay and Tiffany, on Saturday night - accompanied by cake and champagne at our hotel! We couldn't resist staying at the Marriott, which will be a nice dose of home located in a nice quiet area of Paris. We haven't completely decided what to do yet, but it will almost certainly include visits to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, a creperie, and some nice shopping areas. The (possibly untrustworthy) weather report says it's going to rain, but as Audrey Hepburn tells Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina, it simply must rain on your first day in Paris. A bientot!