Relais Montmartre Paris

wow, it has been such a challenge to get over the jet lag so far.Though we have still managed to:

day 1: find a place to stay, walk around the city and get an idea of the culture, chill by the Louvre, climb 680 stairs in the eiffel tower, nap for 3 hours, eat dinner, collapse into bed.

day 2: breakfast, the Louvre (wow its big, i think we saw almost a third of it), lunch, boat tour on the canal (also an exscuse to sit and relax ...

... a lot of the time but the pointer speaks every language. We even ate at one restaurant where we got asked if we wanted French or English menu's which was really surprising. The waiter however didn't speak English so we were again back to pointing but at least we knew what we were ordering. After eating some food and getting some nice pictures posing in front of the Eiffel Tower we headed back to the metro to head back over to Basilique du ...

... tomorrow afternoon and we meet up with his friend Marie from Ottawa (she lives in London now) for dinner and drinks I'm assuming. Then I have Sunday to Thursday by myself to enjoy London and Thursday morning I am on the plane back to Montreal. I'm off now to read my book on the rives de la Seine. until London! Josee xoxo

... serveur avait amené du sel, du poivre et de la moutarde. Y pensais-tu que je mettais de la moutarde sur mes frites, hein! Et puis, demande toujours une carafe d'eau avec ton lunch. Mais Micheline a pris le verre de vin qui venait avec mes moules. Les Français boivent du vin le midi. Pas grand ouvrage qui se fait dans l'après-midi. On est revenu. J'ai piqué un somme. Ou bin, j'appelle ça ma relaxation-méditation. J'ai mes ...

... and with our heavy large bag to pull us back, we were second last. A last second surge and loads of experience under such conditions prevented us from being the last one to board the bus. The bus driver was an expert. He hardly slowed down on turns. We were standing with both hands on the overhead bars and desperately trying to support our huge bag with our swaying body so that the last courteous man in this world who boarded the bus after us won ...

... everybody out of the Airport b/c a bomb was found in some luggage. We all clear out, but nobody is panicing, like in the movies, they're all like Reluctant stupid Fat Cows being pushed to the pen. So after waistin like 30 min, I go back to the desk, but her phone cannot call internatnional she says, "you have 20 min"... So I use my visa, call from a pay phone, can't reach my boss.. and ...

Wednesday 9.5.07 Good morning all. Things are pretty normal here. Tom is up early playing his Nintendo DS and eating Coco Pops, I am writing this as I look out the French doors into our pretty courtyard and, Mark and Belle are still asleep. It is the morning of Thursday 10th May. Yesterday was a full but wonderful day for all of us. The kids are in the swing of hiking around and being confronted with the most amazing architecture, art and history and, being truly amazed ...

... we'd be awake without help today. Wrong! No breakfast for us! My Mom and Dad were fortified with a breakfast and we set out to turn them loose at the Louvre. We picked our lost comm, lost sight point, got their passes purchased and bid them Bon Musee. Karla escaped for her therapeutic shopping on Rue Rivoli and the Champs D'Elysee and I went to offer critiques of Rodin's work at the impressive Rodin Museum near Les Invalides. I shot a ton of ...

... of Gay Paris and even hop on a boat to take us up and down the seine ... coat of chose is a nice brown short swing jacket with flared sleeves ... attractive but far too cold for the nippy french air ... so we shiver our way through the day before heading to the worst club in the world, getting totally mashed and meeting someone who is interestingly called Randolph. Sunday felt like cak ... so we went for some beers to make us ...

... s spectacular. next you get in the car and you drive around the Arch de Triumph, drive past the Obelisks, lean out the window and grab a snapshot of Notre Dame when you are stopped at the intersection, this can be completed in about one and a half hrs, depending of couse on how good your driver is. Next thing is park your car somewhere near the Eiffel Tower and walk towards it constantly ...