Mon amie arrive!

I’m sitting here this morning documenting the past few days because I’m honoring my friend’s request to upload her wedding pictures from last weekend to flickr. Since I took so many, it’s taking forever, and I have a lot of time.

Yesterday was a very easy day. I took a walk around Luxembourg Gardens and St. Sulpice. My friend lives on Rue St. Sulpice, so both of these places to see are within 2-3 blocks. The Luxembourg Gardens are impeccably immaculate, well groomed and beautiful. In fact, I took another walk around there today. The Palais du Luxembourg is actually home to the French Senate, so on my walk today I convinced myself that all the men I saw in suits were very stately looking, and therefore had to be politicians!

When my friend, KJC, arrived, we spent the afternoon lounging around her apartment. She napped, I watched more Al Jazeera and broke in her oven. We took off around 4 pm, walked over Pont du Carrousel and into the Louvre. We saw IM Pei’s pyramid, Jardin Tuileries and then walked around Palais Royales to do a little shopping; in observation, it is interesting that we simply strolled by. In France, there are only 2 times a year that stores can have sales, Soldes. All other times, stores can only say that sales are promotions. So right now, lots of good shopping to be done!

Before we headed out for dinner, KJC showed me her laundry room. An otherwise illustrious room on the 5th floor that she uses for storage becomes something amazing when you can take a photo like this:

Me in the Laundry Room

Yes, that would be the Eiffel Tower in the background.