sights sounds and smells

today, art has gone to versailles for the day. i have chosen to remain because i have seen versailles. so i have named today sights sounds and smells to see what i come up with: to begin, i was checking the weather the old fashioned way, by sticking my body out of the window and there across from me was a woman from asia doing the same. that brought a chuckle to me, so there was my first sight experience. now for smell- that was easy ____ on my way to buy a water bottle i passed the cheese shop__i paused and drooled with the smell of all the cheeses. for my sound it was having a delightful conversation with a young woman at breakfast who is travelling alone___ we shared our adentures to date, comparing notes based on our rick steves travels. so my plan for today is to walk to the seine river and see what sights, sounds and smells i can come up with: if i am lucky i will meet another traveller and maybe have a cup of tea and talk. we did go to the eiffel tower last evening and the lines where shorter then but the weather had a chill in it and it was overcast and breezy. we went to the 2nd stage so art could get photos. the view, even though it was cloudy, was spectacular. again, for dinner we enjoyed sitting outside and watching the world go by. a funny thing happened__ i was enjoying onion soup and a woman asked me in french if it was good__that just struck me funny so when i answered in english she laughed too. have you read about the floods in south, eastern france? I am sad for the people who live there and glad we did not go there. we have been watching the world cup and felt very sad for the south africans game. art wore his south african world cup shirt today for them: peter and ryan__did you wear yours? SO now i am off for the day: