Paris - City of LIght Day 1

Took the TGV from London and zipped over to Paris in 3 short hours. We all enjoyed the ride and train was clean and nice. This was Livy's first TGV ride. We arrived in Paris and found our way to the hotel. Lynne (GPS girl) led us there with her usually navigational skill.  Upon arrival we checked in and got to our room and found the room to be pretty nice. (Albeit routinely small as Paris hotel rooms usually are.) The only downside being the usual  shower that doesn't have a side to contain the water in the tub and so it becomes something of a shower bath, but who cares - we're in Paris. We all went out to Notre Dame and enjoyed the 900 year old church after grabbing some baguette sandwiches from a over-touristy type sandwich shop with semi-bad pastries. 

(Will have to get to our favorite place soon.)  At which point we discovered we were all exhausted and said it was time for a rest back at the hotel room. (We are still on the US time zones body-wise.)  So nap time it was. Post nap we all got up and headed out for dinner with a short stop at the Jardin de Luxemburg. The jardin was wonderful as usual and also had a memorial map about the start of World War I which was quite sobering considering the magnitude of death and destruction which our species heaped upon ourselves.

We found our favorite place was closed (Cafe Du Metro) but we ended up going to Cafe Cassette and enjoyed an excellent dinner of  Lamb, Terrine, Fish and spaghetti type Zuchini (where we discussed the merits or lack of merits of a kitchen gadget that cuts pasta shaped vegetable) with pesto sauce and it was all just super good. The flavors were just amazing and we had the same waitress as we had had a year ago although we don't think she recognized us. (Not that we expected her to.) 

Our next trick is to figure out how to get in all the fun stuff we want to do in the next few days. There is something special about the interplay of the people, buildings and light of Paris. I'm not sure what it is or if it's even real or imagined but I like it as do Liang and Livy. (On her first time there.)

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