lundi 21 mai 2012

Paris and Other News . . .

     Ed's mom, Ronnie, is coming to visit!  She's seeing Paris for a week before she comes to stay with us in Vaison.  So Averil and Asha went up to Paris by train to spend a few days with her.  Here are some photos:

Arc de Triomphe

Sacre Coeur (as seen from Arc de Triomphe)

Pretty View from Arc de Triomphe

Ditto

Space Needle
l'Opera Garnier
Galaries Lafayettte (note to Nordstrom: this is how a flagship store should look)

Averil With Our Friend Lucile (Lucile started babysitting for us at about the age of 15.  Now she's almost done with her studies at the Sorbonne, where she says tourists appear and take her picture as an actual Sorbonne student!).


Asha and Ronnie

Inside the d'Orsay Museum Looking Out

d'Orsay

Above the Seine

Tuileries Gardens (with Louvre in Background)

Ronnie and Asha

Ditto (at Sacre Couer)

This Street Performer Wowed Everyone with His Outrageous Tricks

Outrageous Trick
     In other news . . . . back in Vaison it was Ed's birthday so we had lunch in town at one of our favorite places:




Here is a picture of Ford's bedroom wall with postcards showing the places he's been this year:


 Ford and his friend Nicolas went into town to ask the butcher for a bone for Ivy.  They came back with a femur from a Tyranasaurus Rex:











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