an amelie afternoon.....

ok, so.....after church and lunch...and a family church directory photo (the home-bound folks- not the far-flung....) i settled into a walk on the treadmill with amelie.....followed by a french study session while i watched the remainder of the film from the back table....i am amazed that the new french teacher guy is using verbs i have never heard.....je veux?....where have i been for this one all these years of not recalling french?.....i was taught to say voudrais?.....and je dois?......i have never heard that way to say i have to....and so i am listening closely as i drive, while my 3rd child is happily oblivious.....i have told her that we will not eat until she tells me in french that she is hungry...which is not true for lunch, as i have these meals planned out day by day.....supper....who knows where we will be and where we will stop...but i have favorite lunch spots that must be included......first day....musee d'orsay's grand ballroom restaurant.....such a marvelous space and such good hot and cold plates.....and musee jaquemart-andre....an ethereal space with an imported italian frescoed ceiling complete with angels peering over the faux railing...and then there is the sweet place across the parking lot from giverny....and cafe marly aside the louvre pyramid for brunch on sunday......life doesn't get better than these midday repasts.....i must add that i have yet to enter the first line of information in my moleskine journal.....that will come.....and then i will lend out my new guidebooks to dear friends traveling to france in june/july......i try to transfer all my info into a non-guidebook that doubles as my day-by-day financial record.....it is always comforting to know exactly where my money has gone......for the record i have 3 distinct day-by-day scenarios that hinge solely on when we arrive at our hotel from the airport on saturday......i will be ready for any and all possibilities......