Kris and Jo go to Paris

Two Wheelies Garden

Check out this group of tourists we came across the other day in the Tuileries Garden.  Would you have the self confidence to ride a Segway around Paris?

I am totally convinced that the group leader was a Seattle native, or maybe San Francisco; either way, he's representin' for the West Coast. 

Of course, I am judging him solely on his hair and pants.  If you're curious, click the link blow to see another view of this group and their fearless leader, dude.

Another afternoon at the Palais Royal

Rebecca and I had such a nice time at the Palais Royal recently, that Kris suggested we return for another stroll.

Don't adjust the color on your monitors, the water in the fountain really was that green.  And if you look closely, just in front of the little girls hands, you will see water tracks; as she had just pulled her little paws out of the pool.

Her mother was NOT pulling her out of the water, but rather holding onto her so that she could "safely" dip her digits with the ducks. eeeeww...

No more CPE

You may have heard about the recent student strikes in Paris as well as the general striking throughout France; looks like all the demonstrating was a "success", depending on your perspective.  I took this picture on Friday.  Just days before, this wall near the Rue St Andres des Arts, had merely read : No CPE. 

Now it reads: less cops, more caresses.  The bottom line is a play on words meaning: the government lies, all in one word ( "mentir" means to lie, and is conjugated in the 3rd person singular as: "ment").

Anyway, it seems that Jacques Chirac has announced that the CPE will be repealed.  I guess students will be returning to school and France will need find other ways to fight unemployment.

The same day I took this picture, Kris and I were out on the Boulevard St Germain, where we saw plenty of protesters and lots of police...

Lookin' good.

Spring has sprung in Paris.  The sky is blue and the men are flirty.  I was on my way to the metro the other day, when I noticed that some workmen were returning the streetlights to the pont neuf.  It was an interesting sight, so I thought I would stop and take a picture. 

While getting dressed for class that morning, I had worried that it was still to early to wear a skirt without nylons, but as it turns out, my bare legs and I must have looked totally hot, because two construction guys jumped in frame and began waving. 

At first I just nodded, uh hu yeah, hi.  Then it occurred to me that this was actually a more interesting picture than the one I was trying to take. So I snapped the shot.  Of course, by then the guys were no longer waving, but their smiles were still clear.  Cheeky monkeys.