From there we walked back over to the Tuilerie gardens and had an early lunch at a little cafe. The gardens sit just next to the Louvre, so we walked over to see it (we didn't go in) and then caught our "double decker shuttle" to the Cathedral de Notre Dame. We finally went in a church Janice!! (though we're no longer at 'the heart of the Roman Catholic empire'). There was no line, that's why we went, and Mom wanted to see the Rose Window...we took photos of every window in there and looked up which was the rose in the gift shop...we got a picture! We walked from there down to the Luxenbourg gardens, swapped shoes because both of our feet were getting tired, walked through the gardens (really just a park) did a little shopping for Little Girl and the Girls, went home and dropped off our bags, skyped with Matthew and Carrie-Lyn, Jack and Little Girl (who looks JUST like Matthew as a baby), arranged for a taxi to pick us up at 6:15 tomorrow and headed out again.
We walked from the apartment back over to the Musee D'Orsay and got on the bus again and did the whole loop to get some more pictures of the Arc de Triomph, etc since yesterday my photos have a little glare on them from the window. We sat up top, the weather has been gorgeous!! It's a 2.15 hour loop - we had to kill some time and didn't want to stay in the apartment.
After the bus tour we got off and walked back past the apartment to the Italian restaurant we went to yesterday. Yesterday we shared 4 appetizers (eggplant parmesan, beef carpaccio, shrimp and octopus and asparagus wrapped in proscutto with parmesan). Today we shared 2 apps and 2 entrees (bruscetta, italian sausage with parmesan and then Mom ordered pasta a la Amatriciana and I ordered Veal Scalopini and we just swapped half (the veal comes with no side, so it was perfect). We arrived at 7 and were the only people in the restaurant! Another patron didn't arrive until after 7:30.
Off to bed since we have to be up so early.
Today is actually tomorrow (I'm writing his blog the day after). We're at the airport. Mom woke up at 4:30 and started thinking about her review of the apartment on HomeAway that she wants to write (not so negative that people think you're just a complainer) and couldn't get back to sleep. I woke up a little after 5 and dozed until about 5:45 then got up. Our cab was on time and he broke some kind of record in getting us to the airport in 35 minutes (we weren't late...they're just crazy drivers and there was no traffic). We have about an hour now before our flight...so we'll be home soon.
Jay wrote this morning that I have no idea how worn out he is...I think he needs a vacation! Where should we go? :)
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