{"id":7787,"date":"2007-07-23T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T05:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2011-12-10T07:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T15:23:41","slug":"leaving-paris-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/07\/23\/leaving-paris-for-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Paris for home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We slept okay, got up and got breakfast and cleaned up. We have a cab for the airport at 11:30AM. We hope the We hope we’ll get home in time to pick up our dog, Basil – he’s getting old and we want to limit his time away from us now.<\/p>\n

Below are pictures of some of the things I bought (and assembled) – yes, I like making things so paper sculptures are always fun. I have a large kit for making a Chartres Cathedral (and one I got in The Netherlands to make St. Bavo in Haarlem, which I visited a couple of years ago<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Two paper models of animals I got in a design store at the Louvre (they are made by d-torso) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The figure of Napoleon I bought in Paris at a Russian shop <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A paper sculpture of Notre Dame <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

So, I read two books on this trip, 24 Declassified: Chaos Theory<\/a><\/span> by John Whitman and Anansi Boys<\/a><\/span> by Neil Gaiman<\/a>. The weather was gorgeous – temps in the 60s to 80s F, only a few drops of rain twice (once while we were eating). I learned that Paris closes up mostly on Sundays. The churches aren’t as decorative as the ones in Italy. I learned to be more careful with my sunglasses. And I learned that museum cards are a great thing in Paris.<\/p>\n

We had a wonderful time – hopefully our next trip will be as much fun!<\/p>\n

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We slept okay, got up and got breakfast and cleaned up. We have a cab for the airport at 11:30AM. We hope the We hope we’ll get home in time to pick up our dog, Basil – he’s getting old and we want to limit his time away from us now. Below are pictures of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,730,143],"tags":[1055],"class_list":["post-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-paris","category-travel-foreign","tag-paris-2007"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t