Paris 2

Val's last day in Paris...just as she's bouncing back from the jetlag she has to go home :(

We saw this movie about a little boy who gets this girl to promise she'll marry him if he realizes his dream of becoming an astronaut and so he does...only to show up on her doorstep to find out she's engaged to be married to this other guy in two weeks. So, although he's apparently a little "special" though a complicated series of events not least of which the fiance going hunting but telling the vegetarian fiancee that he's at his fathers, she ends up agreeing to spend 24 hours- one for every year he's spent away from her- with him and give him a chance of winning her back...It was really cute and the ending wasn't even disappointing...I hate to think we're corrupting French movie making...but I like good endings...

We also visited the Galleries Lafayette, home of this fabulous stained glass cupola and shirts that cost- I kid you not- 1600 euros. They're just hanging there, albeit chained to the rack, with price tags of over 1600 euros. Where anyone can go see them. For free. I was waiting for someone to charge us to breathe the air around them but no-one did.

Luckily they also have merchandise that real people can afford. Val and I, as we don't live to close together, ended up buying almost identical shirts and camisoles...well, great minds think alike, what can I say?

(BTW, this huge store you see? Just for the women's and children's stuff...there's a skywalk that connects it to the store across the street, which has all the men's stuff...)