Baseball season has started, not much news of that here, though. It has gotten a little colder but not like it was at the old Exhibition Stadium, 32 years ago today. Roy Halladay must have been born around then? (Checked, he was born about a month later.) And, he got the win yesterday, nice. Later in the day, we passed by The Moose Bar, on rue des Quatre Vents (an appropriate name for a Canadian haunt in Paris, no?)\u00a0and caught just a glimpse of baseball on TV. Will have to go back, although Sandy wasn’t venturing into the place.<\/p>\n
Having had our Outlook restored with email, just showed my how I could easily have not worried about this for the last two days, especially on sabbatical. (No one is indispensable except the Prince, maybe.)<\/p>\n
Worked on chroma (colour) at Graham’s this morning but forget to take photo, was so absorbed in the moment.<\/p>\n
When Sandy was on a conference call, I went to the beautiful and ornate S\u00e9nat chamber in the\u00a0Palais du Luxembourg, built essentially by Catherine de M\u00e9dici. At various specific times, you can watch the S\u00e9nat proceedings. See\u00a0www.monuments-nationaux.fr\/en<\/a>\u00a0although the website, even in English, isn’t particularly user-friendly. From what I glimpsed,\u00a0despite the\u00a0exquisite surroundings, the French S\u00e9nat seemed to be doing more or less what the Canadian Senate does, pretty much nothing, although I\u00a0seemed to\u00a0catch that they were passing (pas d’opposition<\/em>)\u00a0some piece of legislation on\u00a0la droite de la famille<\/em>. Too bad I couldn’t take photos, though.<\/p>\n Spent the afternoon reading, Sandy had a nap.<\/p>\n Then walked around a bit to pick up a few things. Stopped by La Cr\u00e8merie, 9 rue des Quatre Vents, an old creamery where you can have a light snack or pick up a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n So, since our friend Charnois is staying there, we\u00a0secured a table (even for 6) at\u00a0the impossible-to-get-into Comptoir du Relais Saint-Germain\u00a0on a weeknight when Camdeborde offers his excellent value,\u00a0menu gastronomique<\/em>. It’s 50 euros but for\u00a0pretty good\u00a0fare, choice of\u00a0entr\u00e9e and main course, then cheese course and dessert. It was very fun seeing Gerry, Amie and Eric with whom we’ve spent many enjoyable trips abroad (usually playing bridge somewhere, they even bought new cards for the occasion) and we got a chance to catch-up, they having just been in\u00a0Londres<\/em>, visiting our friends Jeremy and Norma.<\/p>\n See earlier blog for photo of\u00a0Le Comptoir. It didn’t look any different tonight, except that we were in it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t