Delicious burritos

This picture doesn't make it look like much but this was a very delicious burrito from a little place where the food was made so fresh and with care and not too many options (quesadillas or burritos) and you help/watch/instruct/participate in the creation of them just like when you get a sandwich at Subway.  Two cute young guys working there and happy to speak to us in English.  One guy, probably the owner, spoke Spanish English and French with not much difficulty and was so nice about it!  Everyone is so good at speaking English, the girls don't even try to speak in French... which is too bad, really...  

But when the girls put the TV on in their room, its all in French...  Tonight they told me they watched an episode of Monk in French.  Charlotte came in to ask me if there was a button on the remote to make it have subtitles in English... But the subtitles button was only for French, like in the US when they run that SAP for the deaf or for the people at the gym...

Back from getting Mexican takeout

Here are the girls on front of the Cardinal Hotel and one of the 3 wheeled motorcycles we've been seeing around which was parked in front.  We found a great little Mexican food place and brought some home for dinner tonight.

and this is what it says on the handle bars

This is what it says on the bike stand

Automated Rental Bike Stand

Also on our way back to the hotel, I wanted to show you this which I think is so cool.  We see these bike stands all over town.  And people jauntily riding them about!  We don't understand how it really works yet, but you pay for the bike at one of these stands, then ride it to another rack across town and turn it back in and it is a rental charged to your credit card or something.   So great!  If we were here longer we would have liked to check it out.  Not city streets with the kids, but in that park along the Seine would have been nice.

On the way back to hotel

I'm not going to go into the details about how after we ate some pizza and very good French fries at a snack bar on the 2nd level on the tower, the girls and I lost Bob for an hour and half while we were still on the Eiffel tower...
... because we want to emphasize how much fun we had today and not dwell on the non- perfect parts... It was a day that required much patience and we did it!  

It was 5:30pm when we were finally reunited and ready to leave Eiffel's magnificent tower.  Our muscles were so sore from yesterday plus we were so tired from the sun and standing all day today, we decided we couldn't handle trying to go see the Arc de Triomphe or the Champs-elysees today... We saw them from above, anyway.  Got back on metro and back to "our" neighborhood.

Here is a picture I took of an eyewear shop along the way... Note the nice composition with reflections of buildings on outside of glass window, yet you can see inside... Wait!  What's that right in the center of the picture? A Polage in a wooden frame for Maui Jim sunglasses designed by my mom, Austine, and produced by her studio which I work with... Always fun to see them in situ and know where they came from.