Quick week/end recap

I'm pretty bushed and it's already 11, so here's the quick weekend in review. Yesterday we started off slowly, but after a late breakfast we went by a local furniture store that's having a sale on nice armchairs. We'd scoped it out a couple times during the week, but finally pulled the trigger and bought a leather floor model with it's matching "pouf" (ottoman). I tried to find a picture on the web, but the store is called Pickup (or Pick'up) and the chair is called Swing, so YOU try googling "pickup swing paris" and see what the pictures show! Good thing the boys are in bed.

After that errand, we headed to the Musée des Arts et Métiers, a remarkable collection and setting dedicated to invention and discovery. The entire self-guided tour was interesting, and the last part is housed in an old church. As Calvin said, this is the best church I've ever seen. (Check out the pics.) Last night, we had our friend Amelia over to watch the boys, and Betsy and I went out for Indian food, which was actually spicy, a rarity for any cuisine here in Paris from what we've seen.

Today we got going even later, then after lunch headed down to the southern edge of Paris for a randonnée along the not-yet-open tramway route. We ended up walking, checking out the neighborhoods, and playing in the Parc Montsouris for over four hours, as it was a beautiful day and we didn't have any other plans.

Tomorrow the boys head back to their last week of summer camp - school restarts next Monday (Labor Day). Betsy has a big meeting here in Paris this week, then next Monday heads off to Japan for two weeks. In France and Paris, rentrée is a VERY big deal, and we've started to have friends return, shops reopen, and sense that things are about to get bustling again. A great time for a visit, eh?