Paris: Day 6

So this was our last true day in France (we packed up and headed to the airport around 10 the following morning) and it was another "free day". Greg and I didn't have anything on our agenda really except to go down town and just walk around and experience more of the French culture. We took the metro to the Eiffel Tower and then walked from there to Notre Dame, most of the time along the River Seine. It was a gorgeous day and actually quite warm!

For the first (and from what we are aware of, the only) time, a local tried to scam us! We were lazily walking along the river when a girl about our age walking the other direction stopped and picked something off of the ground. With broken English she showed us the gold men's wedding band and asked if it was ours; when we told her "no" she then tried to give it to us and was quite insistent about it - she said she had no use for it. So I finally took it from her, fully intending on placing it on the railing as soon as she passed (I promise!). We shook hands and she walked by. Moments later she turned around and said, "I gave you ring, you give me some money for food??" hah! Stupid Americans . . . I quickly returned the ring to the ground and repeated "Non, merci" over and over . . . We watched her walk away and try it again on another couple not far behind us. So that was fun . . . I guess it's true about your tennis shoes alerting the scammers that you're not from around here.

After our long walk, a pastry stop and finishing up some souvenir shopping we headed back home.

We had a wonderful time in Paris and are so thankful that we had the opportunity to go! It was definitely more than we expected to be able to travel at this point in our lives. It was a full week with many memories.

A lot of the metro stations had very different and 'artsy' type seating

House boats along the Seine

This bridge allowed you to cross the river both on the water front and about 30 feet above on the street level

These hot dogs reminded me of something that my dad would have bought

How the guys spent most of their evenings, on the back patio smoking Cuban cigars . . . and by the way, it's about 9 pm in this picture . . . The sun didn't set until about 10:30 every night we were there.