Quick Burger

Today I got our first fast food hamburger, as we'd been missing American and Mexican food (maybe Mexican for tomorrow, supposedly there's some decent ones, but we'll see). I decided to be adventurous and not get McDonalds, and instead go across the street to the Quick, a Belgium fast food chain and kind of like the McDonalds of Europe. The sauce was kind of weird on it (I think it was trying to emulate a Big Mac) but all in all, not bad for a fast food burger. Granted this was a fast food burger that costs like $6.50 for the sandwhich alone, but that's Paris on the euro for you.

We also finalized our plans to go to Vienna in 2 weeks! I'll be going our Czech offices near the border, and so Kara will stay there while I'm gone, and then I'll meet her for the long weekend (we get November 1st and November 11th off, though of course not Thanksgiving, so it all evens out). We're really excited about visiting, as it's supposed to be a great city.

We're also trying to figure out what to do with the long weekend this coming week. We're going to Disney Paris for the Halloween party on the 31st, as it's about the only way to celebrate Halloween American style while in France. We went to the one last year at Disneyland in LA and had a lot of fun, and we're sad to be missing out on the Halloween festivities this year so this is the next best thing. 

But as far as the rest of the 3 day weekend, we're still trying to plan. It's too expensive/late for trains or planes, so we're looking at road trips. Unfortunately the weather is supposed to be cold and rainy all over France (and Paris) so it's limiting the motivation to go out and do something.

I also had an interesting experience today when trying to figure out roaming rates for Kara's cell phone plan. Roaming is a bit more difficult in Europe as while we have a gigantic area of all the US where you'll be "in network", in Europe you only have your country. But what makes it particularly interesting is that France has different names for the countries than we do. The obvious one is the United States is "États-Unis" as it's directly translated. But Germany is "Allemagne" and the Czech Republic is "République tchèque". This is why I think all countries should be called what the people who live  there call them. It just makes more sense!