Saturday Afternoon

After being here for a week, we finally had the time and decent weather to get out and about in Paris. Or so we thought. Once we were as far away from the apartment as we were going to be, it started to rain. We stopped to buy an umbrella and the rain changed to hail. Then the gale force winds blew out our new umbrella. Luckily for us that all took place in about 30 minutes and the rest of the afternoon was fine.

Just outside our neighbourhood on Rue de Rivioli there was a skating rink set up in a public square. There was a pick-up hockey game in progress. Some of the guys knew what they were doing but others had never held a stick in their hands before.

We made our way along Rivloli until we came to the Louvre. We didn't go in but even the outside of the buildings were impressive. Here's the glass pyramid over the entrance.

Then we walked up the Champs-Élysées until we reached the Arc de Triomphe. Which is when it started to rain.

We were wet and cold by this time so we didn't go over to the Eiffel Tower but we had a very good view of it.

Other than the brief interlude of nasty weather it was a great day.

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