Squeezebox

Awoke 9:30 and got ready. We have GOT to get the heat turned down! We're zombies.
Went down the street to a boulangerie where we ordered 2 pain aux amandes. We ate them while walking to find another place for a coffee. Popped into L'Iguana- a very popular bar/bistro. Drank our coffees and watched a woman preparing a divider in the cafe for a stencil she was going to paint of the cafe logo. Off to the internet cafe for WORK. Had to download some of the drivers I'd stripped from the laptop before leaving Seattle and discovered that I didn't have Excel on my computer (stripped off) which required that I had to go talk to Angry Parisian Computer Geek to get him to turn on PC that I was using my laptop in front of so that I could use that Excel. Got my spec and went back to the hotel to work.

Roberta went out walking and came back around 2. I finished my illustrations and went back again to the internet cafe to mail off the work. Took about 20 minutes-- APCG accused me of being there a whole hour so I had to argue with him about time.

We walked down Rue St. Antoine in search of lunch. Stopped at Fontaine Sully-- the bistro across the street from Hotel Sully. I had Crottin au Crostade (hot goat cheese crouton on mesclun), R had Oeufs et Lardon aux Frisees (poached egg and thick bacon on frisee/chicory) Really delicious. We each had a glass of a red: Medoc, I think. The waiter was hilarious-- miming and singing something about taking off...

We continued up the street veering onto Rue Rivoli. Stopped at the BHV, a large department store, and gawked at everything. I was mesmerized by a plump parisian man who looked like a homlier, slightly thinner version of Rip Taylor in a lavender shirt who was demonstrating the irons. In the BHV there are dozens of people demonstrating the products-- women sitting at sewing machines just waiting to answer your questions, men by the washing machines and knives. The most exciting product I saw was an italian espresso pot (like the stovetop versions you can get in the states) with an electric bottom-- like the Russell Hobbs teakettles.

Continued up the street to the Hotel de Ville-- I wandered around while R was in la Poste getting stamps. We had a dinner date that evening so we turned around and headed back to the hotel. Stopped at Monoprix to pick up vin and caviar, creme fraiche and blini for an hors d'oeuvres at Judy and Bill's.

Had wonderful time with Judy and Bill. Judy served a beautiful salad with endive, fennel and grapefruit, veal scallopini with haricot vert and garlic pasta, and amazing crepes suzettes filled with orange-peel laced dark chocolate. We discovered that someone in their apartment building had an open wireless connection so I used that to chat with Martin back in Seattle. We drank wine and talked until 11 and then went back to our hotel.

Tomorrow we have a ladies day out at the grand magasins.