I’ve been here nine days and have finally learned how to say the Champs Elysees without embarrassing myself. It is: shawns-aa-lee-say, not Champs E-Leese like I first started out.
Today’s post are pictures mostly taken last weekend – our first weekend in Paris. We haven’t had much sightseeing, if any, this week. Although the weather was much more beautiful earlier this week. Yesterday it riverted back to extremely cold and rainy. I am going to leave this city believing it is ALWAYS cold here. It hasn’t gone above 45-degrees since we’ve been here.
Debby and Derek full of smiles as we started the day.
Our first stop was the Paris Flea Market. It was your basic street market, somewhat similar to all the street markets we saw in Hong Kong. It was a good souvenir stop if nothing else.
No – I didn’t get one. I just modeled for the picture.
There were inside courtyards along the way where we found more antique/market shops
Gary.
Gene looking for the perfect souvenir.
We took the Paris Metro railroad to get around. It was a tad better than the NY subways, but nothing compared to the MTR in Hong Kong.
We stopped in at Laduree for a wonderful lunch on the Champs Elysees.
Greg and Gina posing for us.
Beautiful china dolls- Gina and Debby.
We did some boutique shopping. The fancy little parisols in this shop were selling upwards of 1000 Euros!! That’s more than $1,300 USD. YIKES!
I wanted to get a shot of the lone duck swimming in the fountain at the Louvre, but somehow ended up with a photo of Gary. How does that happen?
We walked everywhere in the cold rain. Here we are at the Arc de Triomphe.
Another picture of the Arc as we crossed the street.
The obligatory self-photo at the Arc.
We walked from the Arc to the Louvre.
The Louvre is very well protected!
Not sure what this building is – but is was pretty even from far away.
Yes -we were still walking late at night – and yes, need a map to get back.
