Paris. What more can one say?

Just the mention of the name evokes a thousand images.  Paris.  We arrived by train on Friday afternoon and we’ve had perfect days, fun-filled nights and I remembered why Paris is on everyone’s must-do list.  But first a note to all travelers: Because Abbe, Jake and Jackie were staying with us, and I’m too cheap to buy three hotel rooms, we used AirBnB, a website, to find an apartment.  We found a three bedroom apartment just off Place St. Sulpice in the heart of the 6e arrondissement.  The location is perfect and the apartment is exactly what we were looking for.  And for about the price of one hotel room.  Can’t beat it!

We’ve spent the last few days walking, eating, a little more eating, a little more walking.  Of course you can never catch up which is why you must leave Paris after several days lest you are stuck there for life!  Here’s one of of our dinner spots, L’Auberge Bressane.  It’s very traditional french, which of course means that you could be eating anything which will then be covered in a sauce made primarily of butter and cream.  It was also a short walk from the Eiffel Tower which is so beautiful at night.  

We discovered a new traditions (well, new to us anyway) as we walked over the Seine.  The bridges have padlocks locked on to the sides of the bridges.  Hundreds, even thousands of them.  The custom is to “lock your love” and throw the key into the Seine.  So, of course, when in Paris…  Here’s the M&M lock, and Jake and Jackie tossing their key into the river.  Maybe when you read this you should head over to the Mass Ave bridge and bring the tradition to the US!

Yesterday was Rosh Hashana and we all went to shul at a tri-lingual service!  It’s enough to keep up with the english and hebrew, but we added french into the mix.  And if you think that may make the service longer…you are correct.  L’Shana Tova to all and to all a year of peace.

After services we walked nearby to the Trocadero and had more fun with the Eiffel Tower.

Tomorrow Abbe heads to Barcelona to reconnect with some spanish friends from her semester there, Jake and Jackie head to Croatia to see what everyone is talking about, and we head back to London for a quick suitcase switch and then off to Lusaka, Zambia and Part Deux!