Paris - Day Six (and homecoming)

Our last day in Paris didn't start out so well. It was very rainy and I didn't put the umbrella in my bag that day before heading out. Every other time we tried to use an umbrella, the winds would just turn it inside out. Well, this day there was rain, BUT no winds. It would've been the perfect time to use the umbrella. Instead, we got wet.

We started out trying to go to the Pantheon and had even checked the opening times the previous night. We got there (wet of course) and they said they were closed until 3 pm (this was at about noon). So we explored the church nearby and then headed back over to the Louvre to get out of the rain. We finally got to see the Pantheon that afternoon and were glad we did. It's impressive. It houses Foucault's pendulum and the tombs of many great men in the crypts below it (like authors Victor Hugo & Alexander Dumas, and Louis Braille, the inventor of braille).

We wandered the city for the rest of the night eating the best crepe yet, and the "best Fallafel in the world." The weather greatly improved by this time and it was the perfect end to our stay in Paris.



Saturday morning we got up at about 7 am (11pm Friday night in Utah) and grabbed a few loaves of bread from the bakery on the corner. Then we began the long journey home. No incidents in our travel, just long flights and very little sleep until arriving home at 10 pm Saturday night. By the way, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker were on our flight home from New York to Utah. They were very nice to people and people seemed to try to give them their space. She's a skinny little thing and Broderick has gone quite gray. We finally went to bed at 11 pm making it a full 24 hours...we were exhausted.

Our kids welcomed us home in high style with signs and cards and hugs. It was great. But then we found out our furnace must be broken because the temp in our house was 58 degrees. We bundled up in long johns and double jammies for bed and tons of blankets on top. Our house is still freezing and it's going to cost us over $500 to get the furnace fixed today. Aside from the cold house, the stupid smoke detectors kept chirping at 3 am. We don't know why. Maybe we'll catch up on sleep today sometime.