The Dog Days of Summer

Matt with Kibi

Wednesday, August 18th

Fifi posing.

This morning was our last morning in Normandy...we have so enjoyed our stay and our hosts have been wonderful...but, we've fallen in love with their two Yorkies, Kibi and Fifi. Penny said they don't usually warm up to people, but they obviously sensed we were dog people and jumped right into our laps.

We returned our rental car =( after stopping in Bayeux for lunch and then took a train to Paris...stopped at Starbucks =) and then grabbed a taxi to our hotel. This was our splurge hotel. It cost a little more than I like to pay, but had a view of the Eiffel Tower. We really lucked out because when we arrived, they didn't have any triple rooms available, so they gave us two rooms for the same price.

We rested for a couple hours and then went out for dinner. We wanted to try something different, so we ordered the foie gras (duck liver pate) with toast as an appetizer...just so you know, when they say toast...they mean toast. The foie gras was yucky to me, Mike and Matt thought it was okay...but I wanted to scrape my tongue off.

We took a walk to the Eiffel Tower and then Matt wanted to return to the room cuz he was tired. We walked him back and then Mike and I went out for dessert. I had Creme Brulee (yummy) and he had tiramisu (tasted like coffee...yuk to me). After that, we returned to the room for, hopefully, a good night's sleep.