This has been a busy week, and the week of my birthday! Before I share with you some pictures I took on my birthday present, I want to show you a picture of some of our dear friends from Cote d'Ivoire.
We've been in touch with Martine and Ambroise ever since we left Africa, over 20 years ago. Ambroise used to work at the student center with Glenn, and Martine worked with Childhood Evangelism Fellowship. Now Ambroise is the national director of Childhood Evangelism Fellowship in Cote d'Ivoire. Skype is a wonderful thing since it allows us to keep in touch through the years and across the miles!
We had language class this past week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I would show you a picture of Alliance Francaise where we take our course but they have security folks at the front gate who might fuss at us taking pictures of the building.
For my birthday (which was Friday), Glenn and I joined two other ladies who also celebrated their birthdays this past week and another couple on Saturday morning to go sightseeing in Paris on the Big Bus, one of the hop on-hop off bus companies.
It was a lot of fun as we rode the large loop around the major tourist sites. It was a great overview of the city. :-)
Rather than show you one of the many, many huge, ornate and famous buildings, I'm showing you some things that are a little more unusual. These were some really old cars that were on display. I thought of my son and how much he would have loved seeing this. Not quite as large as the Cruise Nights that we used to go to in Marietta with 30-50 cars!
In 1895, two men opened a fashion store in a small haberdashers shop at the corner of rue La Fayette and the Chaussee d'Antin in Paris. The endeavor was so successful that the next year their company purchased the entire building. Galeries Lafayette is currently housed on 10 floors, and has expanded to 6 other countries around the world, with more expansion planned for the future.
On the left bank of the Seine River are some vendors with all kinds of souvenirs from France. My favorites are the oil and watercolor prints of sights from around Paris. I could spend hours thumbing my way through the stacks of them!
Saw this street sign for one of our former Presidents. :-)
Having wedding pictures taken in public places at famous sights is something that is very European that, as far as I know, has not made it to America yet. We've seen this in many countries in central and eastern Europe.
The Big Bus tour lasted 2 hours if you stayed on the bus and rode the route straight through, so we finished just in time for lunch. We were close to the Latin Quarter where there were lots of interesting places to eat, but we settled on a 1950's diner that sells hamburgers and serves A & W root beer!
The rest of the group stayed longer to go back on the bus and get off at particular places that they wanted to visit up close, but Glenn and I had to get back to Gentilly by 3:00 pm. Our church planned a work day in the yard to spruce it up so, as good honorary church members, we cut our Big Bus ride short and headed home to get our work gloves. Unfortunately, we were the only ones to show up! We worked for 1 hour 45 minutes, and then after washing up in the kitchen sink, Glenn and I headed back into town to a huge used bookstore that we discovered a couple of weeks ago. So much fun!
Well, back to language school again this week. We've got an exciting field trip on Tuesday afternoon so come back next week to find out where!
Have a good week!
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