4/18/02 Thursday
I'm up at 7 am and down having breakfast letting Elaine sleep.
I was awake for a couple hours just yearning to get up. Left
a note for her and $2 gold tip (thanks to my sister Barb) for
"La Chambre fille" on my pillow. Went down to the corner
cafe, Le Royal Jussieu, for hot chocolate and spent 2 hours doing
post cards. Elaine helped at the end. Then we loaded up books,
cameras, etc. and bussed over to Gard due East. Walked to Nord
Gate then thru it. Thought we'd be training out from here but
that wasn't the case. We were looking for a stained glass studio
that the desk person at the hotel had seen here. It's the Arab
quarter 
but no studio opposite the hospital as we were told it would
be. We walked and walked more. Bought bananas 
and finally made it to Sacré-Cur.
They
have a Merry-Go Round 
at
the bottom of the hill. (We later saw it in the movie "Amalie")
What a church. Took funicular to the top-our bus pass worked
fine for that. Lots of great mosaics and glass. We Metroed back
to the hotel to unload and ended up taking a quick nap. Then
we bussed to a restaurant we read in the Food of Paris book Teri
had given us. Well, that didn't work out so good. We had great
salads. Mine blue cheese, endive. Elaine's cheeses melted over
little baguettes and walnuts and veggies. Main dish- Elaine had
salmon. I had what I thought was going to be pork ribs. The waitress
didn't speak English and pointed to her stomach-I thought it
was her ribs. Ended up with tripe in pigs stomach.
Not so good. Left 99% of it. 
Bordeau wine, not as good tasting as last night's. We
got here about 7:45 and it was fairly empty. Now 8:45 and it's
getting full. Luckily we brought the umbrella 'cause we needed
it heading for the Metro. Saw in internet place and stopped to
check and send email. The keyboards are laid out differently.
Took awhile to find some characters. Anyway- off to the
Eiffel tower.
It's pretty at night all lit up. 
¤ 9.90
each to ride to the top. It was cool seeing the spotlight 
pierced
by the rain and seeing the rain falling straight down from our
great height. We were the very last ones off as they chased us
out 
and we headed back to the hotel in plenty of time tonight so
as not to be caught out after things stop running.
