Lazy day

Saturday, July 16, 2005:

One of the things that I like about this tour group is that we get a lot of freedom on what we want to do on our trip. Aside from the 3 groups dinners and 3 morning tours we are free to make up our own schedule. So today Ray and I decided we were going to have a lazy day. We went to the Louvre museum around 9:30 and roamed around it until 2:00 p.m. We got to see the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo. There were so many things to see in that museum. We did a quick scan of the museum but wasn't able to go through the whole place. What sucked was that the placards next to the art work were all in French so we had to make guesses as to what we were looking at.

After our museum visit we walked around the Jardin Tuilieres and had lunch at an outdoor cafe there. We both had a tuna fish sandwich. We then walked around a carnival nearby. Nearby was the Colonnade, which is this big statue so we walked over there and looked at all the fancy shops that were in that area.

We returned to the hotel around 4 to rest a bit before dinner. We then joined some other GoAhead folks to have dinner and go on a river cruise. We went to this nice restaurant where I had fish with some weird veggies, Ray had chicken with scalloped potatoes, and we both had wine and 3 scoops of ice cream. Yum! After dinner we went on a cruise down the Seine. It was very romantic despite all the other people there! By the time we reached the Eiffel Tower it was dark so we were able to see the lights on the Tower blinking. It was really pretty. After the cruise we had to deal with some pushy people, but it wasn't too bad.