Paris -the first couple days

Been in Paris for a few days now. It is a wonderful city. It reminds me a bit of San Francisco because we are staying on Montmartre by the Sacre Cour, but has the metropolitain which is a fabulously convenient subway not unlike New York, but feels safer, perhaps more civilized, being Europe. Though Caleb assures me it's probably a false sense of security being a tourist, and that if I lived here, I would be more aware of the less obvious dangers. But I think my 'false sense of security' comes from the media assuring me that the U.S. has more violent crime, murder, rape, etc... I just love cities though regardless of their crime rates, pollution, over-population. I enjoy the stimulation, the people watching, the endless things to do, the ability to see, get most things you want. We've been to the Louvre once, but will probably go again. It is massive. We focused mainly on Italian Renaissance the first time. We went to the Centre Pompidou yesterday and looked at the modern art. Picasso and Monet were fun to show Anja. She really enjoyed areas in which she could view working artists: In the museum there was an exhibit with working painters, and on the streets people doing portraits and caricatures. She was inspired to sketch the Sacre Cour herself, while we sat on the train waiting for it to take us around the hill on our little touristy ride down to Pigalle, where we got off and had a walkabout, before finding some Sushi to tide us over till the one flop of a meal we've had at the Americanized "Flunch." We rode a giant ferris wheel to get another view of the city, outside the Louvre. We keep seeing the Eiffel Tower from afar, perhaps we'll end up there at some point. We have also been to the Jardin Aux Plants, with it's medicinal herb garden and Natural History Museum, which was a site to behold with an amazing collection of bones, dinosaurs, primates, bears, human fetuses, baby rhinos, now we know how the snake swallowed the Rhino (a bizarre headline in the news we read a couple weeks back- we still don't why?) This probably sounds like a lot of for a few days, especially with Anja having a spell of the lyme. Now that she's done with her Bartonella treatment, she has a week each month, in which she is clearly ill with knee and hip pain, different from the Bart. calf pain. Started on the 18th this month. She has actually been spotted on Paris streets riding in a Marigold Maclaren. I suppose some action will have to be taken, again, so as to prevent purchasing a wheel chair. She's a trooper though, and a great traveler. Sofie is very generous with the stroller I might add and is traveling much better, now that she's in the swing of things. She really makes sure she gets everything she needs, and more. Anja also has an agenda. We've been to Shakespeare and Company once and will surely have to return at the rate she reads.