Finally, all great things come to an end....at the train station headed back to Paris for one more day.....or so we thought.....when one day turned into four......

Another open air court yard on Sunday and the entire perimeter of the square was lined with restaurants, which all had outdoor dining. These guys were playing in the center of the courtyard....yea I know...very touristy!

A fountain in one of the Bordeaux town square. There were a lot of walk ways, streets for pedestrians only, river walks, open park areas.....etc Bordeaux was a fabulous city and we would spend more time there on a our next trip to France.

At one of many wines stores in St Emillion Bordeaux.....what a tourist!

Me with an old fashion corking machine....which they still use to cork sample wine tasting bottles, but mass production is all automated. Most wineries in Bordeaux don't have their own bottling equipment, when it's time to bottle, there are mobile bottling trucks which pull up to the winery and bottle their wine for a small fee. Better than investing in equipment which is used for one day a year....especially since the majority of Bordeaux wineries are small format parcels.

Us in front of Petrus, and NO we did tour or taste....they don't entertain wine novices like us.

Shaun with his magnum....which we need to drink sometime this week, since we can't ship it.

This was Chateau La Grange and the reflecting pond behind us is actually built over the barrel cellar area to keep the cellar cool during the summer.

In front of a typical French Chateau. Nobody lives in this one currently.

Shaun and I in one of the storage rooms at a Chateau in Bordeaux.

The Regent hotel was directly across from this structure: The Opera House. On Sunday, there were two cafes which served outdoor tables which fill the front of the House. It was a great place to stay in Bordeaux.

Here is our first Chateau in Bordeaux. I'm standing next to the Wisteria...which was in full bloom all over France!

Ok, so I have posted just a tiny fraction of the pictures taken during our first 3 days in Paris. The next segment will be the 4 days we spent in Bordeaux, and then the 4 additional days we spent in Paris due to the Volcano eruption. At least we will have a story to tell, where were you when the Volcano erupted: "We were stuck in Paris for 4 Days....with a hotel worth of friends from around the world. " You want to meat Americans.....laundry-mat any foreign country during a natural disaster......details to follow. XOXOXOs still in Paris.....on a plane tomorrow, Rinda

Finally, Day Three in Paris ends as it should at a monument which was constructed as a temporary exhibit for the World's Fair 1889. It's funny how a temporary structure now symbolizes Paris like no other structure.

For whatever reason, there is a statue of George Washington in the middle of the Embassy district in Paris....Shaun didn't believe me when I first sighted our founding Father in the heart of Paris. Thus, here is empirical proof of an American Stamp in Paris.

So, on the way from the Arc De Triomphe, to the Eiffel Tower, we found it funny that we should run across the Bahrain Embassy, and couldn't resist documenting the flag as part of our walk-about on Day Three in Paris.

Arc De Triomphe, we didn't get any really great pictures due to the refurbishment working being done. It is still an awesome structure to think that is was built as a monument to the tomb on the unknown solider of WWI and yet, roughly 50 years later, Hitler and his troop would march through the center, over the top of the tomb. It is almost humbling to stand in the middle of the Arc, and visualize the Nazi troops marching and the bristling of the French at the sheer disrespect. You can not only feel, but sense the history here.

On our way down the Seine, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Day three continues with more views or Notre Dame.

We start day three in Paris, a bit cold and over-cast, but on tour around the Seine river, thus we started on a boat tour and first stop: Notre Dame Cathedral. Notice the Cherry trees are blooming.