Some Days

really try your patience. Today for example.

It started at 2am with the sounding of the storm sirens. Thankfully, no damage in our area, but after getting back to bed at 3 I never really did sleep well.

At work, after checking a minor bit of work, I confirmed that what I had done was …

The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, is also one of the world’s largest, housing over 35,000 objects over an area greater than 1/2 million square feet.

We visited in the middle of May this year and barely scratched the surface in terms of seeing the available exhibits. The Louvre is definitely …

To bed at midnight (5PM CDT) Paris time, and luckily to sleep soon after.

Up at six, out of the door by 7:45. Made it to the airport in plenty of time, and had no problems going from CDG to ORD and from there to ICT.

It’s now about 5am Paris time (10pm CDT), and I’m …

On Sunday evening we took the short (one stop) ride down the block to visit one of the most interesting fountains in Paris, the Carpeaux Fountain. As I mentioned, we really, really like the area where we’re staying, and while we’ve ridden the buses all over the city, we’ve also spent a fair …

Here are a few photos from each of the past 3 days. I was doing great in terms of keeping up with the photos each day, but then we visited the Louvre on Friday. Between the two of us we took over 250 pictures!

Eventually I’ll post more photos from the …

I love paintings by Monet, and our trip to (the French-named city of) St. Louis awoke my interest in water lilies, so a trip to the Musée de l’Orangerie, was definitely in order. This building was specially built to display some of …

We began our first full day in Paris with a short ride on the 38 bus up to Luxembourg Gardens. Here’s a photo of the bus as it’s stopping right in front of our hotel.

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After picking up …