Day 2 in Paris: Follow me!

After a good (i.e. drugged on Restoril and Ambien) sleep I awake to sunshine. YES! After getting dressed I venture out. First stop: Walmart for a hoodie! Juuuuuust kidding! I wish!  Over the jet lag, I manage to find the missing USB cable which was "right there" the whole time.  Whew.

I hang a right on Ave Motte-Picquet. Where is that you say? I don't know! I just go with it, in search of un cafe creme. Oh look, there is that street I read about Rue Cler, so I hang a left on that. Hmmm big street market/fancy yard sale appearing street with upscale shops. I need a scarf and a jacket, but no, can't find what I want. How about that coffee! At the end of Rue Cler I hang a left or maybe a right on Saint Dominique. Ah lots of cafes here. Lots of French people and doves. I choose a cafe and sit down outdoors to people watch. The server comes and brings me a cafe creme which is like a frothy latte, and it's amazing (sorry Starbucks, but it puts you to shame) and I order a baguette (just the right size) and butter and jam. Oh great everybody around me is smoking. But it was a good breakfast and clearly I'm getting the hang of this. It cost 7 euro. Like just under $10 I think.

After breakfast, I hang a right or maybe a left thinking I was supposed to keep going right or left but I don't remember which, typical of me. Yup, where am I? Ah voila the tip top of the Eiffel Tower somehow appears in the distance and I'm home free. There are people jogging everywhere. Nobody is fat here. Others are bicycling and of course women are walking the park in stillettos. And bicycling in stillettos. Free WiFi network called "orange" in the park Champ de Mars. I've been dropping Euros like crazy already. Something free at last!

No Macarena woman today, so I try to identify stationery landmarks while watching out for dog poop and dove droppings. Alright clearly I need a jacket. As my co-workers know, I am always cold now since losing weight. Maybe on Avenue de la Bourdonnais I will shop. If I get turned around I will run into the Seine River so that's a plus, cuz it's clearly the wrong direction. Otherwise Bourdonnais sort of runs near my hotel. I think.

I am getting out my camera and will grab a few pics to upload tonight. Don't worry, I am wearing my money belt which actually works pretty nicely if it's cinched tight, sort of like a spanx for the tummy. Nice! I can live with that! Maybe forever! I haven't even lost my glasses yet, which everybody at home knows this is quite an achievement.  I try not to look like a tourist while taking a picture of myself.  Epic fail at the "trying not to look like a tourist" but I can live with it.

I WAS going to get on the Metro and head to the science museum, but yeah, no. I would end up God knows where, and I need to be back under the Eiffel Tower by 6:30 to join the 4-hour bike ride group where we will tour the city on bikes. It will be freezing. At the end of that, we take a tour on the Siene with wine. Windy and cold Siene, so I am back to my former quest to find a jacket. I left this great grey stylish jacket at home, which was stupid I now know. Se la vie! Which is not in my french phrase book, so I can't spell it. For some reason I can speak Spanish now, which will come in sort of handy in Italy but is useless here. That's it for now compadres (*see!) Muah, and hug hug and kiss on both cheeks :)