Campanile Nogent Sur Marne Nogent-sur-Marne

After the fabualous wedding, we drove back to our friend's place in Nogent-sur-Marne. Just a little more browsing in Paris to finish the trip. In Paris we went to the Picasso museum then to the interesting-but-not-well-known Gustav Moreau museum. We trekked up to Sacre Bleu at the end of the day.

Robby is old but man did she ever become old in such a great way!!! Under the Effiel tour!!! We did it, we cracked a bottle of champange under the tower and it was the best moment ever and the best way for Robby to realize how old she is now!!!! Her birthday of course lasted several days but started under the tower having a picnic and me cracking champagne which really could have resulted in me ...

As I was wondering down in the sewers of Paris the other day, I was contemplating the oddities of the French people. Now you may be thinking I am the odd one, given the location of my wonderings, but rest assured that I was accompanied by a large contingency of French people - down in the sewers the French were definitely the largest representative group. Why? Well apparently the French are very proud of their Parisian sewer system; Napolean considered it his ...

... to the nth degree. Students come down a few at a time and are still mostly asleep. Breakfast wakes them up more and we all start to look forward to the day. After yogurt and a baguette, I pop round the corner to a bar for a real coffee. Much better! The morning is fairly complicated as Maxime must go and meet the Sewickley Academy group when they arrive at CDG after their 24-hour delay. I am comfortable taking the WFS group alone to the Louvre and the Champs-Élysées until we ...

My friends live in Nogent-sur-Marne, in the eastern suburbs of Paris. A city of interesting history- not just a suburb. A few houses still sport the Nogent style of architecture which described by me is odd planks of wood imbedded in stucco. Now you can see why I'm not an architect! The first day is always a bit hazy (mentally), so it was nice to get out and ...

... broken. I wasn't happy at all. The only thing I liked about the plane was cute male flight attendants. I guess that is a big point to forgive all above mistakes. Yi-chen was waiting with her French friend, Caroline at the airport, CDG. Caroline took us around main Paris area and we walked around to purchase the Museum Pass we read on the travel guide book by the Museum Louvre. We'll see how ...

... some Sicilian style cannolies which are more like the cannolies that we know of in the US as well as some Nicoise style cookies. One of the cookies I know, was made with almonds, cookie crumbs, pistacious, and was made with sugar and some other spices that I don't remember, and it was in the shape of a brick (very good actually.) The other cookie I believe was made with chocolate and was very good. I believe I might have purchased some fruit too ...

... which was only cool because of the name. It's one of those places you'd like to cross off your list but isn't that great. However, the "Chateau de Vincennes" is the exact opposite. It's not a well known place, but it's really cool. We took the metro there just as the sun was setting, and it was great. I wish we could have been able to go inside it, but it was past opening hours. Still, it was ...

... alarm clock. We trudge through early morning rain forever before getting to a main road South. Another couple immediatly arrive, hugging and groping and smiling and silly and are almost immediatly picked up. Time for Chris to find a skirt. We wait in the rain with a sign saying ´Lyon´. Indefinite...ly? The rain gets harder and we take cover in a cafe. 2 cafes + 2 ...

... my berth had two women in it and I offered to swap. She was most appreciative and we settled in. The conductor didn't have issue with it either. The 'frat' guys went to the dining car. It was 11:30pm when we departed and me, having had my three martinis(made the correct way!) was in no mood to lie down so I went down there as well with my deck of playing cards in hopes of getting a game going. The three guys were sitting having a beer and I started to chat with them. They were on there ...