Day 7 in France

Mom walking along boulevard de Vaugirard in the rain.

Well, we might have dodged the bullet yesterday but today was filled with rain, rain and more rain. It started in the night and kept up well through the morning and just when we thought it might be letting up a new torrential downpour (along with some fierce gusts of wind) would start.

However, we are from Vancouver, a place where unrelenting rain showers can literally last for weeks so we simply grabbed our umbrellas and raincoats and walking boots and headed out into the storm.

We really only had one pressing errand on the agenda today which was trekking down to the Gare de Montparnasse to pick up our train tickets for the trip we have planned on Thursday. We will be leaving Paris on the 9:20am TGV high-speed train to visit our friend Jeannot at his summer home in the Loire Valley just outside the town of Saint Pierre de Corps. Jeannot is one of my very favourite people in the world. I met him through my husband Glen when they first worked together over seven years ago. Jeannot was born in Paris but now splits his time between LA/Vancouver for work and London where his beloved family resides. We see each other regularly when he is in Vancouver but this is the first time we will be visiting him in the Loire. Jeannot asked me to “do a little dance for good weather” on Thursday but whether it’s rain or shine I am sure we will have a wonderful time. Did I mention Jeannot loves food as much as I do?! Full update on Thursday.

After we picked up our tickets it was time to again brave the rain and the umbrella wielding Parisians and walk for an hour or so until we ended up in St. Germain and did a bit of shopping. We picked up a few necessities and then decided it was time to head home to our warm and cozy apartment for tea drinking and some reading before ducking out for dinner just down the street.

It is now time for bed and the raindrops are still hitting the pavement in a rhythmic, pitter patter outside, which is reminding me of home. The perfect sound to lull me to sleep.