This is the last entry for Paris. There is only one picture for today. After a lazy morning, we set out for the 16th arrondisement and a small museum with some Monet paintings of the Water Lilies. It was in a medium sized house at the end of a park, and was well worth the time to see it. Ann and I stopped in the park and Marc took the last picture for the blog. A quick trip across Paris on the Metro and the movie Julia and Julie (in english with French sub-titles). another metro /bus trip and PIZZA at the Pink Flamingo. Some of the best anywhere !! It was written about in The New York Times. Worth the trip. Back to Marc's, packing for the return and off to the airport at 10 AM.

Paris has hills to the north and the south. On the northern hills is another of those icons of Paris, Sacre Ceur. On a warm sunny day the whiteness is almost blinding. Crowds cover the steps and lawns leading up to the Basilica, sellers hawk their souvenir trinkets, beer and water sellers go by, sidewalk musicians fill the air with music of all kinds, and somewhere in all the hubbub, you can find peace and serenity. Ann also found time to text her friend Jeanne, who was here with her 6 months ago. A ride down la funiculaire and 2 Metro rides and it's back the one of the other hills here in Paris, Butte Chaumont, where Marc lives on avenue Simon Bolivar.

After lunch yesterday, we had the chance to just stroll around and go as the wind blew us. A bus ride and a short walk led us to a small Yarn shop, and of course you have to go in and look. A couple of blocks farther and you are at the Macy's of France, Galerie LaFayette. Into H&M next door for a new black scarf and down into the Metro for a short ride.

Our time is fast dwindling down. Only one more full day in Paris. Yesterday we had the pleasure of lunch with Cecile and Jean-Phillipe, friends of Marc, which, I guess are now friends of ours here. This trip has been living the life of the Parisians. We have explored more out-of-the way places, and it's really been great. We are blessed to be able to do things like this.

Several days ago, I posted the Tour St Jacque. I said it was a tower that they forgot to build the church around. Actually is's all that remains of the church that was destroyed after the Revolution. Blaise Pascal, the 17th century mathematician, physicist, philosopher and writer used the tower for barometrical experiments.

Right in the middle of Hausmannian architecture in Paris, stands the Pompidou Centre. The Museum of Modern Art, if you will. It's sort of like a shoe-box on it's side, and the skeleton of the building is on the outside! It make for great space on the inside, though, because there are not very many inside columns or supports. Put up the wall for the art, and voila, there you have it. We saw an exhibit of Post-modern art all created by women; the feminist movement. Not my cup of tea, mind you, but very well done.

Friday was Arts et Metiers museum day. It houses many old scientific instruments and artifacts. A replica of Lavoisier's lab, many old meter bars, examples of how domes were erected, a scale model of the enlargement of the head of the Statue of Liberty, and lots more interesting items of scientific interest. They even have the pre-beta model of the ipod, the Sony walkman! Pictures are at random of various items in the museum. There is also a working Foucault pendulum. How did they figure out that the earth rotates just from a pendulum? Beyond my brain. It was a very interesting place to visit. They also had a fullsize model of the plane Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in 1909. Imagine, 6 years from the first flight, Bleriot flys across the Channel, approximately 22 miles.