Posted in Asides on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For our last day in Paris, we visited the Arc de Triumphe and took a stroll down the Champs-Élysées.
Our camera ran out of batteries at the Arc, so following are the pictures we were able to get.
Here’s me, learning our best friend Rick, in front of the Arc:
After our camera puttered out, we walked down [...]
Posted in Asides on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
After an evening of rest after the Tower, we woke up enthused for our trip to Versailles!
Figuring out the trains was interesting. They kept telling us to take any train that started with V, and it would get us to Versailles – but the trains proved much more confusing. We did make it [...]
Posted in Asides on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This morning I got an email from Jim that he had discovered our cat “half-way up the Christmas tree, buried inside the tree limbs.”
My previous cats were always content sitting under the tree. Who does this cat think he is? A monkey?
Speaking of monkeys, Jackson is smarter than six of ‘em – read [...]
Posted in Asides on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” – Romans 7:15
Getting up early is proving a very difficult thing for me to do. I find myself lying in bed giving puppy eyes at Jim, hoping he’ll be nice [...]
Posted in Asides on January 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The next day Jim woke up feeling less than eager to go out again. The cuisine from the evening before had done quite a number.
But after resting for awhile in the morning we set out to go see the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triumphe:
Did I mention that it snowed? It was [...]
