LEAVING PARIS....June 29, 2013

HOW DO I LEAVE PARIS??? Not very well but ready to be home.  Mixed.

It is hard to believe it has been a month since I arrived and now I am LEAVING Paris.

Yes, I am ready to be home with Jerry, my great husband and see him, family and friends.

But how do I leave Paris?

Fill each moment with places and experiences, senses and joys, feelings and thanksgiving.

So, I will send images of how I have said "GOOD BYE PARIS" these last several days.  There is no way I can capture all of it because it is already late in Paris and my Taxi arrives at 4:45am to take me to the Airport.

Eiffel from the top of the Ferris Wheel

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 For years I have wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel above Paris.  Sometimes, it is located on rue du Rivoli.  Friday night there it was and so I planned a late night ride...11:00pm over Paris.  A Dream!!

Me on the Ferris Wheel.  No one to take my pic so it is what it is.

I had just come from the Louvre where they have late night openings.   It is open until 9:45pm and I went at 7pm.  I spent 1 1/2 hours there.  It was just great.

There is  so much to see at the Louvre, so I limited my time to the French Paintings.  

There was Camille Carot.  Alexandre De Camps. Jean Francois Millet, Theadore Rousseau. Eugene Delacroix. Paul Huet. Theodore Chassrian. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.  

Most of whom I had only read about briefly and truly not much for this "girl" from Tennessee without much liberal arts education.  Still They were revealing in what I did not know and what I did know.  There is not enough space to say all that I learned...HA..  Maybe there is only need of a paragraph but it it too late to do that. 

 Here is one of Delacroix.  NOT too impressive.  But his were more dark, bold and some hostile works with violence.

Now, this is the other extreme....HA.  Here we have one of the Highlights of the Louvre...THE TURKISH BATH.  This is by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Now it is 11:00pm in Paris.  I will just tell you, I went to Shakespeare and Company, book store.

Also sent shopping.  Then to the Secret Garden close to my flat, to see Marc Chagall and to the Theater at Odeon

I cannot show the pictures I had planned because I cannot get this Blog program to work on this Ipad. 

So,good night.

Au Revoir to Paris and to you.