A Few Days of Fun

Past few days have been loads of fun...

First chinatown - Tang Freres - a huge asian market that you could just peruse for hours - and I did just that! It was really fun to just walk around the area, with all their junk shops, but surprisingly, since my eye is always trained to find something inspiring for my work, I actually came across some images that you would never have guessed, but prompted several new prints for my portfolio. So a good day at work...

Then had a fabulous day with a girlfriend, who took me to an old time and well known moroccan restaurant, where I was not only grateful for the use of a fork (since at the well known moroccan restaurant in Los Angeles, called Dharma Greb, you eat with your hands), but also grateful to have the luxury of spending such a glorious day with her. After lunch we went back to the Marais and spoiled ourselves at Le Loir dans le Theiere, where we indulged in a sky high lemon meringue tart and coffee.

Then had dinner with another girlfreind, who always takes me to someplace offbeat and interesting in Paris. So we started out with dinner at a noodle restaurant she turned me onto last year over by Opera, and then took me out to the Stalingrad canal, where I had never been before, giving me a little history of some of the buildings, while sitting along the canal having a drink until well past midnight.

Today I met up with an old girlfriend from San Francisco who's in town; her first trip back to Paris in 27 years. So I took her over to Les Halles, an area she had not yet discovered, and we dined on good pasta and old times. Strolled around for the day, and ended up at Les Deux Magots for a mille feuille and a coffee, and then came back to the Marais so we could relax at my place, and the next thing we knew it was 5:30.

With times like these, Paris really begins to feel like home...