Day 8 Part II

Well, Paris is a lot to deal with but we have been making the best of it and it has been a blast!! My wife forgot to post the pictures from Montmarte so those will be included in this post. Last evening was our big dinner at the Eiffel Tower. We got all gussied up and ready to go around 6PM, a full three hours before seating; the Parisians like to eat late, much later than we stupid Americans do. We took our Metro ride down towards the tower; in the process, Mrs. Green decided heels were a very bad idea and that was before we even got to the tower! Once we got to the general area of Eiffel Tower, there were Africans EVERYWHERE selling cheap little Eiffel Tower replicas "One Euro, One Euro"; we just kept walking at everyone. There were three different lifts that went where we needed to go, we were both unsure which one to go and the lines were HORRENDOUS!! I decided to seek out a reception booth for some further info. I found and the nice young woman told me to go across the way and check in; at this point it was about 810PM. The man at the booth across the way checked me in and gave us our passes and told us where to go from there. At about 830PM, we were instructed to get in a certain line and were whisked up the lift momentarily. While waiting, Jessie was worried that we were over dressed; she was wearing a lovely black silk dress and I had slack, shirt & tie, and blazer on. Once I looked at our invitation, I let here know that everyone was just severely under dressed. I so wished the maitre'd  would have turned away anyone wearing tennis shoes or denim as the invite stated. Oh well, we were seated at a cozy little table on the second floor of the restaurant. Seems many people who dine at this restaurant are part of tour groups, which sucks. Those groups have a much smaller menu to choose from with no options once they are seated. They are pretty much corralled like cattle, not either of ours' style. Jessie ordered the cold creme corn and popcorn soup, Veal fillet and chanterelles, and chocolate cake and mousse for dessert; I had the seared jumbo tiger prawn with avocado, cucumber and grapefruit, Salmon fillet in a beure blanc sauce with pureed carrots, and profiterole with hot chocolate sauce for dessert. It all was 100% amazing. Along with a bottle of rose wine, we had an amazing evening. After dinner, part of the tour group sitting at the table next to us mentioned Ohio; Jessie asked them as they were leaving if they were from Ohio. Of course they were, they were from Loveland which is a suburb of Cincinnati. She mentioned I went to X and conversation ensued. Truly a small world!!


After dinner, we walked around the Eiffel Tower and snapped some nice evening photos. We ran into yet another tourist scam of people trying to shove roses into a young woman's hand (Jessie's in this case) then making me pay for it. Luckily I have a smart wife that knows better so we were not fooled!! We headed back towards home and Jessie decided that the heels had to go, so she proceeded to do the rest of the trip barefoot. We made it home safely and hit the bed hard. And to Miss Lisa Jones Mitchell, there is a picture included on this post just for you, I will let you decide which it is.