We arrived in Paris a few. Days ago and have been mostly asleep since then. The older we get the harder jet lag seems to hit us. Nonetheless we’ve managed to settle. All seemed ok until we discovered that our tv wasn’t working. Well it was partly working as we could get Apple TV but not any of our cable channels. Panic set in as we absolutely need to watch election reporting over the next few days. After a lot of head scratching trying to figure out what to do I went on line and checked out the biggest appliance store in our area- Darty’s. I searched for TVs and the first one that came up I liked and bought it especially when I saw that delivery was included. After the next few steps making the purchase – to my absolute delight – there was an option to have the tv delivered the very next morning. The most helpful delivery man showed up mid morning and set up the TV. CNN international to the rescue!
These first few days have been occupied with stocking up on staples and going, of course, to the market and local patisserie. I actually had to stand in line to get my two cereal baguettes.
Standing in line wasn’t so bad – waiting in front of the pastry window was.
Several months ago I saw that our favorite choreography’s works were being performed on Nov 3 at the Palais Garnier. Excited because we would be in Paris- I immediately went on line and bought two tickets. I’m always worried that I won’t be able to download the tickets properly or find them on my phone when I need them. Fortunately, it worked out well. We took an Uber and got there early enough to avoid long lines at security or the ticket takers. My phone worked perfectly and we were seated with 20 minutes to go. You can see we were quite early. The performance was sold out.
The performance made us speechless. Thus- I have no words to describe how beautiful the dancing was.
Now the Garnier is really built like a palace wits big winding staircases everywhere. But I knew there was an elevator which we took upon arrival but after walking up a few flights. What I didn’t know is that there is a secret side entrance with direct access to the performance hall. We made the discovery when an usher – seeing our canes— pointed us down the corridor and told us to wait there with two other people also using canes. After a few minutes a door opened and another usher came out and escorted us into a beautiful elevator covered in red velvet. We were let off on street level where a guard escorted us out to the street through the massive gates that surround the Garnier. Who knew?
pianomd 
Fabuleux!! Nice job on getting the tv fixed, tu as reussi! Bravo et Bonne nuit! hahah xxx
Glad your tv travails were settled. The atmosphere in the states is so charged you could see sparks fly While a different sort of chaos will reign starting Tuesday night. We will miss you at our quadrennial election party. Also Thanksgiving which h we are hosting.
Sorry to miss the holiday and hope you have a great celebration election night. We will find out what happened when we get up in the morning. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 Love Carolann
Oh, Carolann, as usual you make an annoyance sound like a wonderful experience to the extent that I am jealous of you having to purchase a new TV😊! How do you manage to find such lovely, helpful people!
The Garnier sounded wonderful! Enjoy your time there!
🤞for tomorrow….
Fondly,
Lisa
We are lucky- that’s for sure but there are a lot of nice people around. I had to get paint this morning and the shop owner was wonderful. It’s fun! I might write about it. Waiting for Jeanne to arrive any minute.
Carolann
thanks for staying in touch… enjoy it all!! n
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Auntie!! I’m so glad you’re writing again 🙂 I’ll be following along to see what you guys get up to – I’m sorry to read the TV was broken! I wonder what happened? I would say power surge but those don’t happen over there haha. So glad that the Darty’s guy was able to set it up for you and finally had connection again. Especially considering tomorrow – you guys will be glued to that thing!
Sending all our love!!!!
Jonathan
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I was just thinking about the two of you. I’ve been obsessed with the election. We are going dark for two days no TV no phone. I can’t stand to watch it. I told our neighbors if she wins in a landslide come over and knock on our door because we won’t know anything until Thursday or Friday. This election will not be settled for a month. He will sue everyone involved and make a big mess out of everything. I don’t wanna live in a country where half the people would vote for someone like that grafting lying sack of you know what. Nice to hear from you. Keep sending your notes. I really enjoy them.
Linda Finkral 120 Thumpertown Road Eastham, MA 02642 609-234-8731 Cell
The Palais looks wonderful. Enjoy and be healthy.
Love
BAnn
Enjoyed our visit to you.
You really were better off not listening to the election stuff- now, ten days post-election, I’m doing a lot of deleting of news, Trump appointments, all depressing enough to make me desperate enough to turn to the Hallmark Channel for diversion! Joan