07 June Vincennes

    Today we were to go to Giverny, Monet's home and gardens.  We woke up early and began to get ready but just lost energy for the plan.  We are tired, it looks like rain, and we decided we didn't want to spend a combination of four hours on Metro, train, bus, and/or taxi to get there.  I guess it proves we have traveled too long on this trip.  I am personally feeling isolated since I have not even been able to look at my email for five days now.  We decided a better way to spend the day would be lunch at the Australian Bar that has Wi-Fi and catch up on email, also confirming our flight home on the Internet since we can't even call from here without an unknown fee. 

   As to not make it a wasted day the first order of the day was to unpack everything and repack it ready for flying and travel home.  That took until approximately 1pm when we then headed out to have our lunch.  The Australian Bar is a fun place, if you can read the steps each one had a distance to a point in Australia.  The lunch was tasty, the people friendly, the service was good but the overall experience was unsatisfying as far as the Internet.  We were unable to connect to the Internet at the cafe and even though they tried to help us "this happens a lot" so we were unsuccessful.  From there we walked to the McDonald's that we were told had Wi-Fi also.  Here we were able to connect but we were still unable to actually post anything or check our flights.  From here we walked to the Internet Cafe and found it closed on Sunday.  By now it looked like a storm was imminent so we walked back to the apartment.  Overall, a time consuming and frustrating experience. 

   We first thought we might head back into Paris tonight and see the Eiffel Tower at night with the lights and all but good humor and the desire to do so has escaped us.