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rest of saturday
May. 16th, 2009 10:17 pmMorning-
So interesting little difference at starbucks - no pots of milks/cremes to add to your coffee. I asked for a little milk and they added some of their hot milk. Unfortunately one reason I wanted it was to cool it down a little.
Late afternoon - between ND cathedral and the hens and bunnies -
While I was in Notre Dame my cell phone vibrated. Didn't answer it then. When I got outside it said I had two voicemeils but I couldn't remember the code to get them. I tried calling our room again ( I had a bit earlier) and that wasn't working properly. It would tell me how long I had (prepaid) and then just be silent... perhaps I wasn't waiting long enough for the call?
Went in the crypt under Notre Dame which I hadn't done before. Don't know if it wasn't there, or I just didn't know. It's got the foundations of some gallo-roman era buildings, and some 1700's ones (foundling's hospital). There are panels around the wall showing stuff about the development of Paris, from just the island w/ Notre Dame way back (before any ND), then in Gallo-Roman times the city expanded to the south, in medieval it was on both sides and had a wall...
I wonder about a city with enough foundlings you have to build a big hospital for them.
Esoteric Bookstore-
It was raining as I was going to the bus stop. Not too hard mostly, but at one point when I just didn't want anymore rain I popped in the nearest store, which was an esoteric bookstore. They had quite an assortment of books on Eastern stuff, shamanism, astrology, tarot, kaballah, and assorted other things, but nothing that I could see about neopagans or witchcraft. Just curious. Popped back out in a few minutes and it wasn't raining as much.
Luxembourg Gardens
- only passed by twice on the bus, didn't go in. Does look familiar (from 40 years ago)
Evening
So then I headed back to the hotel my mother was here. We talked about the Night of the Museum stuff, but the ones we could work up any interest in weren't the same ones, and I had a horrid headache, so we wornd up not going to any museums at night.
On tv there was some odd Quebec comedy that had subtitles in French even though it was in French. I guess like they put subtitles on our tv whenever there are Jamaicans talking?
Today -
If we believe weather.com it's supposed to rain pretty much all day at least half the time, and clear in the evening. Yesterday it started raining earlier than they said it would, so we'll see.
Guess I'll carry the umbrella and look for some other museums to visit. Got a bit of a headache again, it maybe time to change my contacts, but I'm thinking of wearing my glasses on the plane tomorrow, perhaps I'll just wear them today too.
Tomorrow -
early departure to get to plane home
So interesting little difference at starbucks - no pots of milks/cremes to add to your coffee. I asked for a little milk and they added some of their hot milk. Unfortunately one reason I wanted it was to cool it down a little.
Late afternoon - between ND cathedral and the hens and bunnies -
While I was in Notre Dame my cell phone vibrated. Didn't answer it then. When I got outside it said I had two voicemeils but I couldn't remember the code to get them. I tried calling our room again ( I had a bit earlier) and that wasn't working properly. It would tell me how long I had (prepaid) and then just be silent... perhaps I wasn't waiting long enough for the call?
Went in the crypt under Notre Dame which I hadn't done before. Don't know if it wasn't there, or I just didn't know. It's got the foundations of some gallo-roman era buildings, and some 1700's ones (foundling's hospital). There are panels around the wall showing stuff about the development of Paris, from just the island w/ Notre Dame way back (before any ND), then in Gallo-Roman times the city expanded to the south, in medieval it was on both sides and had a wall...
I wonder about a city with enough foundlings you have to build a big hospital for them.
Esoteric Bookstore-
It was raining as I was going to the bus stop. Not too hard mostly, but at one point when I just didn't want anymore rain I popped in the nearest store, which was an esoteric bookstore. They had quite an assortment of books on Eastern stuff, shamanism, astrology, tarot, kaballah, and assorted other things, but nothing that I could see about neopagans or witchcraft. Just curious. Popped back out in a few minutes and it wasn't raining as much.
Luxembourg Gardens
- only passed by twice on the bus, didn't go in. Does look familiar (from 40 years ago)
Evening
So then I headed back to the hotel my mother was here. We talked about the Night of the Museum stuff, but the ones we could work up any interest in weren't the same ones, and I had a horrid headache, so we wornd up not going to any museums at night.
On tv there was some odd Quebec comedy that had subtitles in French even though it was in French. I guess like they put subtitles on our tv whenever there are Jamaicans talking?
Today -
If we believe weather.com it's supposed to rain pretty much all day at least half the time, and clear in the evening. Yesterday it started raining earlier than they said it would, so we'll see.
Guess I'll carry the umbrella and look for some other museums to visit. Got a bit of a headache again, it maybe time to change my contacts, but I'm thinking of wearing my glasses on the plane tomorrow, perhaps I'll just wear them today too.
Tomorrow -
early departure to get to plane home
