It’s What day? It must be what location?

Okay I’m doing this later but about before. We have been so busy, squeezing blogging time in has been a challenge!

Friday

Notre Dame in the morning we walked over one of the many bridges to the Ile in the Seine and looked at the cathedral from the park/square in front. To be truthful the crowds and heat made us more interested in the river, so we went to the next bridge --the one closest to Notre Dame -- only to discover a river tourist boat thing, called Bateauxbus (Chris loves this pun) It is a large tourist boat that just circles 8 stops on the river from the l’tour Eiffel at the west end and the Jardin de something at the other. It was great to just drift along and get this grand tour. It’s a hop on hop off thing but we just took it the whole route minus one.

We walked across the river and entered the Louvre, this time to see Mona and the Grand Gallerie. When we were there two days before there was a new flash looking restaurant that was in training with signs that they were opening the day between. We stopped there, on their day 2, for a late lunch. It was not so crowded and the staff were just wired in a happy way that they were doing it. Part way through an air grill fell off the wall onto a shelf up on the wall so was safe but startled everyone and the staff looked at each other and laughed then straightened up.

It was very good and not at all pricey. Later in the grand Gallerie, we spent some time just sitting and watching people and the art in a couple of different spots and the salles are so large you can actually see art between groups of people! We stopped for dinner at a brassiere, gallerie, café, restaurant, tainture or what ever it was called at this place.

Ice cream and chocolate for dessert that I foraged because it was getting too crowded for us mere puny humans by this time 10:30pm (and that’s still just getting cranked up it seems. Joyce headed for the unit and I headed for the late night grocery store (Yeah Carrefour)