Paris….

It started badly with Eva’s bag missing. No sign of it at the airport luggage pick up! So tired, hungry and frustrated we have the challenge of manipulating the luggage claim department with a language barrier. Eva stayed calm and got everything filled out and away we went hopeful that all would go well and her bag would be on the 11:00 pm flight.

AM. No bag….

We go off for breakfast and a day of sightseeing.

Hundreds of miles and we didn’t get enough walking in, so off we go to the highest peak in Paris.

What comes up must go down….so down we went. Next stop The D’Orsey Museum. Into the metro we went. A very helpful guy from Paris helped us with our ticket purchases (he might have decided it was easier and faster to help us rather than wait for us to figure it all out).

The lines to the museum were long, and it was raining so hard that we decided to…

Fortified, back to the museum line.

It was well worth the wait. An afternoon spent with the masters (and thousands of people taking pictures and selfies of the art). Heather had warned us, but it was still shocking.

We really worked up an appetite strolling three hours through the the museum so off to another early dinner. We went to a charming small café with delightful food, service and atmosphere.

We got so relaxed at our long meal that we had to speed walk to our boat tour on the Seine. I was literally jogging at times; didn’t know I could still do it!😉 People were romantically strolling along the river as we sped past them. I felt shin splints coming on.

We ubered back to our hotel, jumped into bed and went soundly to sleep. Then at 12:25 am….the fire alarm went off. I jumped out of bed, woke up Eva and we ran down the stairs to the street. These are the other guests in the hotel, so completely dressed; that came out minutes later.