Day 5

Up a bit earlier today in anticipation of the arrival of John, Connie, and Craig. Paul tidied the apartment and we went for breakfast near the hotel of Connie and Craig so we would be right there to meet them. A weary looking trio soon climbed out of a nearby cab. The first information we received from John was that he had borrowed my car and crashed it the day before. No wonder he didn’t sleep on the way. This vacation gets more expensive by the day. At least no one was injured. After a short break we walked to Vagnende Restaurant on Rue St Germaine through a gully-washing rain storm. We now were in the company of very wet and weary travelers. After some French wine and food they perked up enough to head off to the Pompidou Center to view some modern art. We took the gerbil tubes up to the exhibition halls and got our fill of Picasso, Calder, Kaminski, Miro, Lipschitz, Pollack, Matisse, Barque, Chagall, Dali and some nice cleavages according to Craig. Mark said “I am half boy, half crazy, and all artist. This is so coo!” Now the trio was as worn out as the stairs of our apartment after 250 years of people climbing in the same place. We sent them all home to bed and Paul and Suzy drank a bottle of wine and introduced Mark to Crepes. He actually ate it! About midnight, Suzy decided “I shouldn’t have had the Tartar or maybe the snails as she was up every half hour through the night.
SKC

Paris, France