Maybe you are curious about what we do everyday? Before I left my firm for this trip, one of the partners kept saying to me, “I would get bored after a week!” Nope. Hasn’t happened yet!

As Dan likes to say, “this is not a vacation.” So, we (Dan) try to treat the weekdays like work days, and the weekends like weekends. We aren’t super strict about it. For example, we went to Versaille on a weekday to avoid the crowds. And today, a Thursday, is Alice’s birthday, and you cannot work on your pug’s 12th birthday, so we are taking her to the Eiffel Tower to celebrate.

A month into the trip, here is what an average weekday has been looking like. With some asides by moi.

We get up between 7-8 a.m.

I set a goal to consistently get 8 hours of sleep. I am doing it, it’s wonderful, and much easier to accomplish when you do not have a job.

First, we usually work out.

I set another goal for myself to workout every day. The definition of “workout” is flexible, but generally it involves obsessively tracking the rings on my Apple Watch and making sure I hit the move and exercise goals. The stand ring is a joke, Apple.

Next, we go to a co-working space or cafe and do some work. The co-working spaces are neat. You pay by the hour to use the space, and they provide free espresso and snacks!

“Work” is a loose term for me, but it generally means writing, working on projects for a wonderful legal non-profit, Advokids, and researching lunch options. I did just receive materials for my horticulture course, so I gotta start studying, and I’m a little concerned how it will fit into my busy schedule. Dan actually does work.

Lunch is between noon and 1 p.m.

Then Dan goes back to work for the afternoon, and I either come home to hangout with Alice (nap), walk around town exploring, or hunt down random things I get obsessed with like pet stores, bakeries, red lipstick, headbands, and leopard print garments (the last three are essential if you want to pretend you are a French lady).

I make dinner most weeknights. That has been really fun. Paris has unbelievable produce! We San Franciscans think we have it good, but this is a whole different ball game. I’ll blog more about what I’ve noticed about food later.

Here are a couple dinners from this week that I’m proud of.

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Okay, I know they are basically the same meal, but one has carrots and the other has white asparagus (which just showed up at the markets this week), and I wanted to show you both (and prove that I am capable of eating vegetables).

After dinner, we usually talk about how we can’t wait for Game of Thrones to start on April 14, complain that it hasn’t started, and then we watch old GOT episodes, while I do the crossword and Dan does Dan stuff. So this portion of the day is exactly like our life in SF.