Faaaaaast travel day

It has been a long while since I have been a passenger on the TGV.  I had forgotten how damn fast that train travels!  We hopped on in Lyon and 2 hours later hopped off in Paris.  The countryside flew by and, with only 2 stops along the way, we were just nicely settled, then we were getting off.

Two of the Brockville couples that we are meeting arrived before us.........Ardis and Marsha were firmly ensconced in the sack to work off jet lag and, after a brief "hi......how are you?", Bill and Penny were fast behind them.  Brenda and I wandered the city which was as busy as ever and finally met up with Bill and Penny for dinner in an intimate little restaurant on the left bank.  Our hotel is wonderfully located on the right bank, a couple of blocks south the l'Opera and, has typical "can't swing a cat" bedrooms which will likely seem quite large after we get to "our" barge on Sunday.

The pics are:

1- Some of the hundreds of thousands of locks which were attached to the Pont des Artes.  The locks have all been removed from the bridge structure itself, for fear that the lock's weight would collapse the bridge.

2- Wandering through the Louvre, Brenda stopped to admire the gardens.

3- The quintessential rive Rive Gauche shot in Paris.