Sept. 20, 2018
Mom arrived on the 19th. Then we whisked her away to Paris, France for a quick visit to see the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral. We showed Mom the Arc de Triomphe and strolled along the Champs-Elysees. We enjoyed some dinner with wine and then Mom and I left Rick to do our tour of the Eiffel Tower. Of course Mom loved the views. It was pretty windy up at the top, but we didn’t care. Rick stayed down by the Seine River and made friends with the vendors. He finally caved and bought a bottle of wine one was peddling for 30 Euro and the vendor felt sorry for him sitting there so long, he sold it to him for 10. It was horrible wine. Which we all knew it would be since being sold out on the streets.
The next morning we all headed off for coffee and breakfast near Notre Dame. Then we left Rick again, (party pooper) and went to catch our tour. As our miserable luck would have it we did not find our tour after about 45 minutes of searching. I thought I knew where the site was and we waited and waited. Then about the time the tour was to meet I saw no others and new something was wrong. We searched all over for our tour group. We were soaking wet as it was raining. We walked all over the outside of the Cathedral to no avail. So at 30 minutes past our tour time, we did some shopping and went back for more coffee to warm up and then headed to train station to take us to Germany.
No Ordinary Trip 