La France, partie deux

Okay, I know that it's been over a week since my last post but I had to edit down my photos and get them off to the people that paid my bills this month. Between work and fun I shot somewhere around 2000 photos. I was also booked with photo shoots most of the week through Sunday following our return. Still, Jessica is afraid to kiss me for fear of bumping her head into my lens. I am happy to report that yesterday was the first day in three weeks that I did not take a single picture of anything. Jess has been busy with work and planning a candle party. We have the Revlon Run/Walk this Saturday and will be going to Riverside for Mothers Day. Please make notes in your calendars for there will be a quiz later. We also did some portraits of my family over the weekend and I will post them after the vacation photos. I know my family in Missouri would like to see them and I would also like to introduce them to those of you in Chicago.

On with vacation fun: (Saturday April 22nd)
As we last left Jessica and I we had just arrived into Roissy France. I was given a day to rest before work so we decided to head into Paris and wear ourselves out by walking up the spiral staircase of lé Arc dé Triumph which, at it's peak led to a beautiful souvenier shop that was requested to be built by Napoleon himself. "Laisser il y a souveniers pour tout"! Translation: "let there be souveniers for all"!
That's us in the shoplifting mirror on the right. The staircase we hiked up on is on the left.



We also stumbled upon this ancient building (it's name unknown to me right now and am too lazy to find out for you) that housed a Museum in the front and a park and playground in back. We decided to partake in the park and playground because of it's giant springed animal things.



I know it's weird to post but when nature calls on the streets of Paris one can always find a public "toilette". These handy street devices are all over. When someone is finished the automatic door closes and proceeds to sanitize it's self before the next anxious guest. In this case it happened to be Jess. I followed shortly after.



There were a number of churches that we had visited on this trip but thinking back I have to say Notré Dame was the most breathtaking. It definitely lives up to it's reputation.



Before heading back to our hotel in Roissy we decided to find the hotel that we would be checking into on Wednesday. It's a good thing we did that without the luggage. We wandered around forever thinking it was "just around the corner". We eventually found it and came up with a better route on how to get back there. On our travels we discovered a very talented group of musicians that happened to be wearing random bunny apparel.



It was a great day of climbing, shopping, peeing and sight seeing. The next three days would be work for me and Jess to fend for herself.