Paris continued...

I feel like this is a mini-series.

"When you last left us, Jaime and Diane were leaving the Rodin Museum."

(Dany et Diane: Mere and Mom)

L to R: Dany, Pauline, Diane, Jaime and Marie.

OK, so after we left Le Musse Rodin, we took the Metro to meet up with Jaime’s French family; Marie, Dany and Pauline for a day of shopping.

We started with lunch at Les Deux Magots. It's the cafe that was frequented by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Bouvoir. Diane had a salad, but everyone else ordered toast points with melted chevre. After lunch it was time to shop. Our first stop, Louis Vuitton.
(It was located next to the cafe, so we decided to pop in for browsing purposes only!)

I was with 3 dangerous French, classy women! I thought that I was the best shopper, NOT, they far surpassed me! We visited Agnes B., Annick Goutal, Longchamp et al. Jaime had fun trying out new looks. You be the judge! (Agnes B. was also where we learned that Dany's youngest daughter, Margaux passed a very tough and important exam.)We even visited Scott's favorite store, Muji, to buy him some pens.

France's Bon Marche.

Our favorite part was the little butterfly charm chain they gave us at Annick. You can hang the butterfly from your pocketbooks after you spray it with your favorite perfume!

I so enjoyed listening to Jaime with her sisters and mom, speaking in French, and then translating back for me. I did pick up a few words here and there.

Editor’s note: Jaime’s mom picked up a lot of words! She did great.

We said our goodbyes to Dany and Pauline, then Marie took us to meet her boyfriend Fabrice. He took us to a great Italian place not far from our hotel.

Fabrice (25) and Marie (23) wanted to practice their English, so we helped them out here and there. They understand almost everything we said, but they are nervous about speaking the language. I think they need to visit Professor Rassias at Dartmouth.


They practice by watching American television shows like Grey’s Anatomy.

Fabrice (quite a McDreamy) and Marie gave us a tour of Paris at night. La Tour Eiffel

Wearily we were up at 5:30 and off to Charles De Gaulle Airport for our flight home to Newark. We had a great time and look forward to coming home now.