Alan and Chrissie Return to Paris, France 2001
April 26 - May 14, 2001
Out our window we could see...
There was a guuud dooog in an oriental carpet stall near the frite stand...
Accidentally eating in the rain at Rick Steves’s cafe of choice...
May Day in Paris is wet, too. And communist...
Joan of Arc medieval reenactors on horseback at the Opéra Garnier...
Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue”at the Concorde métro...
Then there was the Jewish-Quarter-cat asleep in the deli window...NEVER laugh at a cat...
Then there was the dog seated at a restaurant table...
Free Ben & Jerry's ice cream...
Staying dry in the Archaelogical Parvis Crypt of Notre Dame...
Opéra Bastille and the ballet “Nosferatu”...
Jardin Promenade atop le Viaduc des Arts...
The “It’s Raining Men” building...
French Monopoly games...is the Eurodollar really going to happen? I don't think so...
Alexander finds his way to Paris...
In the SDA church near Campo-Formio métro on avenue l’hopital...
Teacher Appreciation Day: Woolley
"The smell of the feet of an angel" cheese...
Teacher Appreciation Day: Wortham...
We’ve been living as fugitives...
St-Sulpice’s 10:30 a.m. mass...getting invited to the organ loft...Australian TV gets footage of Alan telling Daniel Roth how well Nikki and Kilory are doing on the piano...
Doppelgängers: David Read, T. Daniel S-------d, Jim Landelius...
George Whitman of Shakespeare and Co. invites us to 4'o’clock tea...Steven wants to stand outside with a trench coat and hiss “Psst. Want ‘A Moveable Feast’? I got your ‘Little Prince’ right here”...Myself on a bed that has slept Henry Miller and others...Mark Wahlberg almost invited to The Tea...
Sheri-D Wilson’s poetry reading where I learned “never get attached to a golf ball”...
Visiting Colette, Rossini, Ingres, Delacroix, Balzac, and Sarah Bernhardt...
On top of La Samaritaine again...
High Tea at the Hotel LeCrillon...
Somewhere Bob Mendenhall and Andy Woolley groaned in shame...
The Comedie Français which was not yet open, so we discover the gardens of the Palais Royal...
Alan started a Hitchcock movie with Emmental cheese...
Fabric-table women with metre sticks are scary...
The famous “last windmills” and “last vineyard” of Montmarte...Bless these rude Parisians...
“If all TV was like this I could learn French!”...
Doppelgänger: Dorie and Rolando’s son, Jared...
12:45 Thursday free concert at Sainte-Trinite...
Channeling Carol and Darren Slider...
“Le Revizor” at the Comedie Français...
Sylvia Beach’s original Shakespeare and Company...
Cluny garden sounds like the Bog of Eternal Stench...
Picnic at St-Julien le Pauvre...Nacho Cheese Doritos and Dr Pepper at Notre Dame's flying buttress park...
Three or four Marc Chagalls at Museum of Jewish History and Art...more rude Parisians...
Rue-side outdoor table at the Marché Café...
Chocolate and COLD milk in the shade of trees and the Eiffel Tower...
A drunk/druggie snatches my journal...
Saint-Francois-Xavier and tintinnabulation...
Had to ride the #42 bus you know!...
Channeling Larry the Cucumber and LuAnn Venden Herrell (“We’re all going to die!”)...
Evan T is touring with the San Francisco Ballet...
Weird CAN be GOOD...“Giddyup giddyup giddyup let’s go!”...
Carol and Darren will be asking me to get professional help -- soon...
My back looked like an interstate!
I sang “The Song of the Zebu” right there in front of God and everybody in the RER station...
Josephine was a closet Texan...
I was the only visitor there taking pictures of the snails...
“Viva Las Vegas” on the stairs...
Quint-ennial Mother’s Day meal at Jardin Notre Dame...“See you tomorrow!”
Caught in a turnstile: I know how a rotisserie chicken feels!...
“Man! What DID you pack in that thang!”...
“A root beer float without the alcohol”...
The twins were impressed by the stinky cheese. You can see how impressed...
Mom and I are going to France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria in September with Dr. Sicher...Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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