We moved from our tourist hotel to the housing provided by the opera yesterday. We are staying in this building, located in the Cité Universitaire in south Paris. I guess this place was built to be some kind of communal living experience for international academics. We did fine in our little hotel room, but we now have two rooms and a kitchen and it is so nice to have a bit more space. Brian had his first reading of the opera today, and when I say reading I mean reading. They actually just read the text- no singing. Kind of interesting, but it's a long rehearsal period, so they have time to get all artsy with it. I went for a sleepy walk with Colin and explored a bit of the huge park across from our place. We hope that this place with a separate place for Colin to sleep will give us more peaceful nights, but last night he figured out how to get out the front door. We have a new security system involving a table knife that will hopefully help tonight.