This weekend I had an unexpected visitor. My friend Alex who has been traveling the last 6 months decided to pass through Paris to visit. This was my very first visitor...if you don't count my friend from class who came to fix my T.V. We planned on going to the Louve's Friday night special for people under 26 it is free! Unfortunately because of the holiday it was closed :-(. So instead we went for a lovely walk along St Germain and got a cocktail. We saw the cutest puppy and Alex drank a Mojito (who does that-- lol). We made our way to a restaurant his mother had recommended and the food looked great (I cant eat out at restaurants because of my special diet--no, not a loose weight diet, its a dont die diet). Alex ordered Salmon and mushroom soup. The salmon was 100% raw fillet and the mushrooms were sauteed-- not a soup. BUT he said it was all REALLY good. And now I know a place I can order a meal (I can eat raw salmon). We sat next to this lady and her two children and started talking to them. They had moved from California to Switzerland for the past 2 years and were in Paris for the weekend. She said they just up and moved and its been great (I think you need to be rather wealthy to do that-- she had HUGE diamond earrings). Any ways it was a lovely night. Alex had to fly out the next morning and missed out on the barking dog, who barked from 8am- 7:30pm when his owner came home. When he arrived home he received a nice note from me asking him if there was something that could be done about the last 11 hours of barking I had just endured :-) The dog has been quiet today.