mmmm korean food!!!

mental note: hale (with a little ^ over the a) means tanning. so when you see it on body lotion, and if you're not looking to tan... DON'T BUY IT!

let's just say, that after a couple of days of putting on what we thought was body lotion, and then freaking out because we thought we were getting jaundice and our livers were failing... we came to a stark realization that... our lotion... was a tanning lotion.

i'm not sure what dawned on us harder. relief that we're not going through liver failure? or the awareness that we're complete... idiots.

either way, we are in the middle of our own lost in translation movie, and this is probably not going to be the last snafu we encounter on this trip. stay tuned for more idiocy entertainment.

moving on.

craving korean food, grace got this recommendation from a friend of a friend ('s cousin's uncle's neice's nephew's second-step-father-in-law...) and so we went to a korean restaurant near invalides... that... wait for it... WAIT FOR IT...



had... good... service.



my korean friends first warned me about the fact that korean waiters and waitresses aren't known to chat up with their customers, and that they can be... abrupt. i've come to expect this, and actually i like it, since sometimes service that's too chatty gets... irritating to the point of homicidal. but here, service was impeccable and it was like the twilight zone compared to the States. but this place was AMAZING! it wasn't so much authentic korean food of mounds of meat, and mounts of fried rice, as it was artistic. the service was impeccable, and plated with beauty and care.





it was... a little pricey... at 18 euros a head, but the food was exquisite, with fantastic ingredients... and definitely i could not complain.

i present you... Samiin. Chris, you definitely need to go here.


i walked grace to her to the street that leads her to class, and with time to spare, i went out and took some pictures.

the railroad tracks of the subway leading from underneath to above ground

an artistic impression of the eiffel tower

coming home, grace and i decided to open up the bottle of wine we had, get some cheese from the local cheese shop and chow down our dessert.

we put on a fastastic pixar movie (much better than anything dreamworks could put together, of course Michelle Chung). it should be obvious which movie it was... being we're in paris, grace is cooking up delicious gourmet meals, and i'm an ugly rodent. ratatouille!

so with grace lying down on the sofa, we proceed to watch the movie. about 3/4 of the way, grace proceeded to go into 'listen only' mode, which lasted all of 5 minutes before 'listen only' mode... unbeknowest to me, actually evolves into a 'listen only' mode with a plug-in called 'softly snoring.'

despite claims from the suspect that the 'softly snoring' plug-in can be used in CONJUNCTION with the 'listen only' mode... i have my doubts and suspect that... instead... she was actually... passed the heck out.

but, like the x-files... there's a government conspiracy and coverup so I guess i'll never know.