The Place de Grève

We stopped by the Place de Grève, which is the place in front of the Hôtel de Ville, to watch the skaters during the daytime. The rough boys were there, showing off, while timid skaters carefully made there way around the ice. The carousel had a long queue of parents and children waiting for their turn. It was free. Even some grown-ups without children were riding on it.

Last days in Paris

Well, I have to do it...I have to post the last photos from our last days in Paris. I put it off because once posted, it means the trip is really over. It flew by!

Okay, here's what you're seeing...a view of a French village as we were flying back to Paris from Dublin, the skating rink we watched being constructed on the parvis in front the Hotel de Ville (the igloo is where you rent skates,) a view from our studio on a rainy day (you can kind of make out the map of Korea in the lower right corner, you know the one that looks like a bunny statue,) and the Christmas decorations on the corner by the Pont Marie metro entrance. There's a similar one by the St. Paul metro. Big red and gold bows decorate trees. Lower branches have been pulled down to hide the tree trunks. Real grass was laid down and trimmed in a curve. We watched them create these, too.