If you are following along with my blogs you will see that the last one left off saying how you produce electricity in Europe. Ok, I'm self-centered enough to mislead you. After all, it is about me. What I'm talking about is putting your door key into an outlet that lets you use the electricity in your room. Electricity is expensive enough that they make you use your ONE room key to keep the lights on. If you leave, you get about 5 minutes of courtesy lighting before they go out. I know, I timed it when Andy had to leave the room to call a friend because the phone connection sucked from our basement room. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me get back to France.
By the second day in Paris we realize we are in a really seedy part of town. Website pics looked great. Brenda does some Internet checking and finds a hotel in what a waiter later described as the "Golden Triangle," read: five-star really expensive, you will have to cash in your retirement accounts to pay for, but totally worth it. They bend over backwards for us and seem to like us.
Side note: French people do not really like Americans. Small slights...sitting in a sidewalk cafe and asked for the bill...apparently the waiter didn't like us much. We wait about 20-30 minutes and I decide to use the loo. Walking to the restroom, a waiter steps in front of me and pretends to check a bill or something. I tell him in French "pardon me" and he says yes and moves. I come back and we still don't have the bill. Finally Sue says, "watch this, " and proceeds to stack our dishes. You have never seen a waiter produce a bill so fast in your life. Gotta love that passive-aggressive-behavior. :)
Back to the blog: We are within walking distance of everything worth seeing. We walk and we walk and we walk, which is a really good thing after all the food we've been eating. Coming from not-so-sunny Seattle, I am roasting and sweating profusely which really sucks.
We did the Eiffel Tower, we did the Louvre (for only 3.5 hours) OMG - note to self: go back for several weeks to see the entire thing. We only touched the minimum - Mona Lisa,Venus de Milo, antiquities of Rome and Greece...too awesome!
Next up: Sue's 50th B-day Seine cruise. More Fun!!
By the second day in Paris we realize we are in a really seedy part of town. Website pics looked great. Brenda does some Internet checking and finds a hotel in what a waiter later described as the "Golden Triangle," read: five-star really expensive, you will have to cash in your retirement accounts to pay for, but totally worth it. They bend over backwards for us and seem to like us.
Side note: French people do not really like Americans. Small slights...sitting in a sidewalk cafe and asked for the bill...apparently the waiter didn't like us much. We wait about 20-30 minutes and I decide to use the loo. Walking to the restroom, a waiter steps in front of me and pretends to check a bill or something. I tell him in French "pardon me" and he says yes and moves. I come back and we still don't have the bill. Finally Sue says, "watch this, " and proceeds to stack our dishes. You have never seen a waiter produce a bill so fast in your life. Gotta love that passive-aggressive-behavior. :)
Back to the blog: We are within walking distance of everything worth seeing. We walk and we walk and we walk, which is a really good thing after all the food we've been eating. Coming from not-so-sunny Seattle, I am roasting and sweating profusely which really sucks.
We did the Eiffel Tower, we did the Louvre (for only 3.5 hours) OMG - note to self: go back for several weeks to see the entire thing. We only touched the minimum - Mona Lisa,Venus de Milo, antiquities of Rome and Greece...too awesome!
Next up: Sue's 50th B-day Seine cruise. More Fun!!
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