23 Dec 2013

Soirée Famille par Pascal Camugli

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DSCN0591 Early the next morning, we go to the airport to receive Vivi and Ian DSCN0592 The station name lost an "S"! DSCN0594 Christine and Vivianne in the airport DSCN0595 Vivianne and Christine in the airport shuttle
DSCN0596 And again! You choose! DSCN0598 Once again back to Monoprix to fill a few culinary gaps DSCN0599 Then, the streets of Paris await us! DSCN0601 We suit up and start off on our tour
DSCN0603 We took the Metro a LOT DSCN0604 Though old, it was clean and quick DSCN0605 Group at our home Metro stop, Strasbourg St-Denis DSCN0607 We went to the Opera first
DSCN0608 and walked toward the shopping district DSCN0609 but were instantly distracted! DSCN0617 Our goal is the window display in the big department stores DSCN0615 such as Au Printemps, near Gare St-Lazare
DSCN0611 It was not easy getting close to the window displays DSCN0612 but the dancing bears, etc., etc. are remarkable DSCN0614 Time to move on! DSCN0620 Next stop: scuptures by Francis's god father, George Saupique
DSCN0621 These bas-reliefs on between windows of a building at 34 Rue Pasquier DSCN0622 that had been a foreign investment bank DSCN0623 We pass through the Christmas market in front of Gare St-Lazare DSCN0624 where Mary-Jo, Nikki and Austin get some hot cider
DSCN0625 We go up the escalator in the station DSCN0626 everyone appears in their turn DSCN0627 in various states of mind DSCN0628 at the top of the escalator
DSCN0629 We continue through the station and on to Rue de l'Amsterdam DSCN0630 En route, mauvaise troupe! DSCN0631 Next stop a park with another G. Saupique sculpture DSCN0632 There are a variety of responses to this situation
DSCN0634 but Hector Berlioz by Saupique ignores us imperiously DSCN0635 The troops regain their morale DSCN0636 Morale II DSCN0637 Morale III
DSCN0639 Sausages grilling at the Christmas market (another one) on les Champs Elysées DSCN0641 L'Arc de Triomphe as the bus bears down DSCN0642 Red lights allow a view from the middle of the boulevard DSCN0644 L'Arc de Triomphe at one end
DSCN0645 La Grande Roue on the Place de la Concorde at the other end DSCN0646 Christine tucks into some saucisson sec DSCN0648 Ian's gift knife proves its worth DSCN0649 We have time to kill so Francis and I cross La Seine
DSCN0650 The Tour Effiel DSCN0651 Les Invalides, where lies Napolean entombed DSCN0653 on the roof of the Grand Palais DSCN0654 The bridge of Alexander III
DSCN0656 built in 1900, a jewel of la Belle Epoque DSCN0657 Time to enter the Grand Palais DSCN0660 Grand staircase in the Grand Palais DSCN0661 also built for the 1900 Exhibition Universelle
DSCN0658 We came to see an outstanding exhibition on Félix Vallotton, a French artist born in Lausanne DSCN0659 who made prints and paintings DSCN0662 and who, we learned, has a complicated relationship with women DSCN0663 We headed home around la Place de la Concorde
DSCN0664 Oblelisk and a "street light" DSCN0665 Back at the apartment, la jeunesse played card games DSCN0666 as we prepared for la Cousinade DSCN0667 The first of many amuse-gueule, many of which came from Picard
DSCN0679 DSCN0668 Fanny, Christine, and Hannah Thibault, with Francis DSCN0669 The Greenwood and the Thibaults: second cousins, once removed DSCN0671 a delicious gateau brought by Annick, Claire's niece
DSCN0673 Annick and her gateau DSCN0677 The next time I saw this plate, it was empty! DSCN0674 The cousinade was well-attended DSCN0675 with more than 30 people covering four generations
DSCN0676 Pascal Camugli (on the right hugging his wife) captured the event well - see the next folder