Today

We walked from our apartment to Montparnasse-the huge black building that sticks out in the Paris landscape.  I honestly had no idea that it was within walking distance.  We went to the  gare there and bought our passes for the metro for February.  My reward was that we took the metro back.  We had to change at La Motte Piquet -Grenelle, but I was so delighted that we actually changed and came out at our local metro station instead of walking back from the station by Monoprix.  

The Professor and I make a great pair.  He is limping from his foot that has bothered him off and on since 2010 when he got to wear a big black boot.  I have something wrong with my little toe on my right foot.  It has been swollen to about twice the size of the one on the left foot for about three weeks and it hurts just to put on shoes.  So we are both limping.  

I keep thinking that I am going to get used to the rumble of the metro under our apartment but so far I have not.  Even though I don't feel it every time, I still hear and feel the trains passing under us.  

The professor has not decided that the only place he is going to buy bread is the boulangerie that is over on Saint Dominic.  I had forgotten how hard the crust can be on a baguette.  Lots of crunch.