ANTIQUES, CREPES AND GALETTES

Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny day in Paris!

Our initial outing was to a nice grocery store (a little ways away, I thought) to pick up a few items.  They had some Easter candy so we tossed some in our basket to add to the Easter boxes we'll be sending to the kids.

Following that, we stopped at La Mere de Famille, the oldest chocolate store in Paris, and got some good chocolate for the kids.  Because she accidentally overcharged us, she threw in a small box of chocolates at no charge!  Un cadeau!

Finally,  ready to go home, (this outing was intended, I thought, to be fairly brief).  However, coming home we saw a small antique store and decided just to pop in.  I really expected it to be expensive but it doesn't cost you to look!  The owner was a charming, older French lady with limited English but between her English and our French we communicated nicely.  We walked out with a really old, pretty mirror for the bedroom which WILL go with us when we leave!!  She also had a set of three (small, medium, large) drawerless tables that we considered for the bedroom but we decided to wait.

We took our things home, dropped them off and headed on the bus to the Hotel DeVille area to this street market (very small) where "Rita" makes crepes (so April told us).  It was a long bus ride and there was lots of traffic, but we arrived, found Rita and got two crepes - actually one crepe (with homemade chocolate and caramel) and one galette (a crepe but not sweet, instead salty-I chose potato, onion and cheese).  Delish!!!!!

Rita giving the finishing touches to my galette

I'd seen a man selling scarves so I checked him out after I devoured my lunch and bought two solid-color scarves.  All the scarves I have are print and sometimes a girl just needs a solid color!  Again, I had enough French to make my purchase.

We decided to get the little antique tables but couldn't remember exactly where the shop was😖!  Between the two of us and our separate recollections of location, we found the shop and got the tables. Fortunately, they're small and light so David could carry them!!

You never know where you'll find a treasure!

Our wifi and cable were installed Tuesday and David ordered a phone since his previous phone belonged to the company.  It can take 48 hours for the wifi/cable to boot up so we're just waiting.  Once all that is working, we'll get my phone French service.  While some things here are expensive, wifi/cable/phones are not.  So yea!!!!!!

Maybe soon life will start settling in and feel normal....