Today we saw a woman with two rats in a cage on the Metro.
Wonder if she is related in some way to the Rat man at Odeon?
We had breakfast in and then with a blue sky above us we walked out the apartment door and went the other way...toward the Pantheon. We saw the hotel (Hotel de Grand Hommes) we stayed in in 1992. Looks the same. A lot is closed up today (it's a big holiday: Feast of Assumption). We walked to the Jardin du Luxumborg. Really beautiful day. Kids sailing boats, people sunning themselves. We wish we had brought a picnic.
Lunch is at a little place on r. Soufflet: sandwiches and pizza and then Deb and Emily have sorbet on the street (poire for one of us; pamplemousse/orange for the other...guess who had what?).
We get a Metro and go to the Musee Rodin. It starts to rain as we get out of the Metro (no umbrellas or coats today, too bad. Guess I should always carry them?). We have to stand in line for about 10 minutes because we haven't yet bought the weekly museum passes (which we do when we finally get in.....6 days for 45Euros and it lets you cut the line to the front. Kids under 18 are free). This museum is always nice. The outside sculpture garden the best. Everyone likes The Thinker the best.
Then we decide to go get a boat down the Seine. Getting to the boat place proves to be complex. We actually end up walking underground in multiple metro stations, and finally come out just where we started...having gotten nowhere! By now it's raining again so we decide to hop a bus, but when we get on the bus we realize it's going in the opposite direction that we want to go! It takes us to the right bank and finally ends us up in the 16th (not far from the Bois de Boulonge). We think that we will just stay on and take the trip back to where we want to go, but everyone gets off but us and the driver says "Monsieur, this is the end....you have to get off". Marc says "Are you going back to Paris?" He told us we had to get the next bus. We do. The next bus takes us back to our neighborhood and we find a bistro for dinner (but not before going into a bakery for tarts for later (poire).
We have poulet avec frites (Deb and Em) Salad with Chicken, egg, potato, corn (Sarah) and Salad with Chevre chaud (Marc). Too bad for all the smoking...
Head back up the hill (get some washing machine detergent and toilet paper on the way up). Deb inadvertently bought PAPER TOWELS yesterday instead of toilet paper......
Back to the apartment for mint tea and pear tart. Reading, playing, practicing Maftir in the loft, and Marc searching on Zagat for restaurants that don't allow smoking (none exist).
Tomorrow we are going to check out the Buci Market and go to the Musee d'Orsay.
Sarah has finished all of her books (including HP6 we bought at JFK) so we need to find an English bookstore tomorrow. Probably we will try for Shakespeare and Co. when we are near there tomorrow.
more tomorrow. Hope you are all well.
xoxoxo
Wonder if she is related in some way to the Rat man at Odeon?
We had breakfast in and then with a blue sky above us we walked out the apartment door and went the other way...toward the Pantheon. We saw the hotel (Hotel de Grand Hommes) we stayed in in 1992. Looks the same. A lot is closed up today (it's a big holiday: Feast of Assumption). We walked to the Jardin du Luxumborg. Really beautiful day. Kids sailing boats, people sunning themselves. We wish we had brought a picnic.
Lunch is at a little place on r. Soufflet: sandwiches and pizza and then Deb and Emily have sorbet on the street (poire for one of us; pamplemousse/orange for the other...guess who had what?).
We get a Metro and go to the Musee Rodin. It starts to rain as we get out of the Metro (no umbrellas or coats today, too bad. Guess I should always carry them?). We have to stand in line for about 10 minutes because we haven't yet bought the weekly museum passes (which we do when we finally get in.....6 days for 45Euros and it lets you cut the line to the front. Kids under 18 are free). This museum is always nice. The outside sculpture garden the best. Everyone likes The Thinker the best.
Then we decide to go get a boat down the Seine. Getting to the boat place proves to be complex. We actually end up walking underground in multiple metro stations, and finally come out just where we started...having gotten nowhere! By now it's raining again so we decide to hop a bus, but when we get on the bus we realize it's going in the opposite direction that we want to go! It takes us to the right bank and finally ends us up in the 16th (not far from the Bois de Boulonge). We think that we will just stay on and take the trip back to where we want to go, but everyone gets off but us and the driver says "Monsieur, this is the end....you have to get off". Marc says "Are you going back to Paris?" He told us we had to get the next bus. We do. The next bus takes us back to our neighborhood and we find a bistro for dinner (but not before going into a bakery for tarts for later (poire).
We have poulet avec frites (Deb and Em) Salad with Chicken, egg, potato, corn (Sarah) and Salad with Chevre chaud (Marc). Too bad for all the smoking...
Head back up the hill (get some washing machine detergent and toilet paper on the way up). Deb inadvertently bought PAPER TOWELS yesterday instead of toilet paper......
Back to the apartment for mint tea and pear tart. Reading, playing, practicing Maftir in the loft, and Marc searching on Zagat for restaurants that don't allow smoking (none exist).
Tomorrow we are going to check out the Buci Market and go to the Musee d'Orsay.
Sarah has finished all of her books (including HP6 we bought at JFK) so we need to find an English bookstore tomorrow. Probably we will try for Shakespeare and Co. when we are near there tomorrow.
more tomorrow. Hope you are all well.
xoxoxo
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