Day Three in Paris

Dinner last night at Aux Lyonnais was wonderful. We had rabbit and prime rib as our main courses - not too many vegetarian options here - and an escargot soup and baked egg dish as starters. For desert, we both had souflees with apple ice cream. Delicious. Steve even ate au gratin "rotten" potatoes.

Today, we spent the morning exploring some more of Montmarte and then headed over to Cimetiere Du Pere Lachaise - the world's most visited cemetary and resting place of Jim Morrison of the Doors. The cemetery is quite beautiful. First, we visited the grave of French painter Theodore Gericault and then headed over to Jim Morrison's location (thanks to Steve's terrific sense of direction and map reading ability). Hs grave was surrounded by visitors including a tour group and to our surprise the bust covered with grafitti has been removed and replaced with another headstone. We tried to figure out what the story is from eavesdropping on the tour guide but since he spoke French just about all we understood was "The Doors." Afterwards, we headed over to Marais for a leisurely walk and some lunch.

A funny thing about our new hotel room: As we have at pretty much all of our hostels/hotels, when available we book the multi-person rooms because they are much cheaper. There is normally some combination of bunk beds and single beds and it is no problem at all. Here, we booked a three person room. When we arrived, we were informed we would be in a four person room - no big deal to us. When we got to our room, we realized that the hotel had just converted the three person room (which is really the size of a regular double room) into a four bed room - crammed with four single beds (Kelly's actually being a cot). In order to maneuver whatsoever in the room, the beds had to be pushed together to form two double beds with about one foot of space between the two sets of beds. Okay for us, but the looks on our two Israeli roommates' faces when they came in and saw this setup was priceless. Luckily, they are really good sports about us all basically having one huge bed the size of the room.



Other than that, the hotel is really nice.

Luckily for us as well, there is basically no language barrier here in Paris. Most people know enough English that we can communicate (and we are working on improving our French) and when people learn that we speak English they always try to speak to us in English. Everyone has been incredibly nice here to us.

Now is laundry time but we'll post back soon.