Special Visit with a Friend from College

I knew that a former college friend was working/living in Paris so I contacted him prior to the trip, hoping we could get together at some time while we were here. We haven't seen each other in more than 30 years! We arranged to meet for dinner at a French restaurant. We figured out how to get there from the our museum trek. On the way we passed some interesting sites along the bus route, including an obelisk from Ramses II at the Place de Concorde (where 1300 were guillotined in the 1790s) and the Arc de Triomphe. The Sebillon has excellent food. We started out with some sparkling wine and water, followed by our appetizers (escargot for me with a challenge to get those tiny snails out of the shells), and some more wine. For the main course, Steve had scallops and I had sea bass. The waitress showed us a seafood platter they serve for a large group of people. There weren't enough of us to eat all that! We ate our first desserts of our our trip and they were outstanding; chocolate mousse for Steve and creme broulette for me. 

Great conversation with my friend who gave us a bottle of wine to enjoy while we are here. Almost forgot to have Steve take our picture.

Took the Metro back to the hotel. At one stop, some musicians boarded the bus and entertained everyone. Of course, they passed the "cup" for some money.