Off to Bordeaux this am by car (gulp) after a terrific night on the Eiffel Tower at 9-10 last night.
Highlights of yesterday:
- the Eiffel Tower lit by fllodlights (see pic above)
- K slyly photobombing some tourists who were insistent on taking their photo in front of us. We are not digging some of these obsessive people.
- awesome ice cream late at night for M, K and Mom; the place makes you buy two scoops because they shape the cone into a flower shape, with the first scoop flattened out like the petals of the flower and the second scoop in the middle.
- even better lunch of Poulet Provencal with out of this world fried potato slices, and a glass of Chinon Rose, on the Isle St Louis - 16 euros. In a restaurant run by a gray haired chef-owner and her cats. Not so much on the cats, but terrific food at half the price of the night before at some chic place.
- the chilled out park, Place Des Vosges, in the Marais district, followwed by Mom and M buying jewelry from a nice little shop
- getting out of Paris without renting one of the funky public rental bikes which are everywhere as part of Paris' public bike rental program. K has been looking at them yearningly for 2 days, every time we pass a vending site. The bikes are cool and alluring, yes, but there's no doubt we'd have ended up in a Parisian hospital learning the French phrase for "massive head trauma"
- the Parisians are nice - from the grandmother who made us lunch to the pharmacist who gingerly cleaned M's skinned knee...we've liked almost all of them. BUT, we may have a different perspective after we get the rental car in 2 hrs and start driving.
Dad
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