Apologies for abandoning my blog for the past couple of weeks, but preparations for our Paris trip (and the trip itself) took precedence.  While the trip was wonderful, I am happily back home in PA unpacking, catching up on hundreds of e-mails, and watching baseball and football at normal times on the TV (rather than the middle of the night on justin.tv.  Here are some of my favorite pictures I snapped in the City of Lights – a more comprehensive post(s) will follow.