Eiffel Tower at night

Hall of mirrors, palace of Versailles

Dinner at the Louvre

A neighborhood fountain in Paris

Eiffel Tower

Cooking class

How do you kill a few hours while your spouse is attending a conference? How about taking a cooking class!?

Metro

Taking the subway on Sunday morning, not too crowded. Destination: cooking class!

Le Meridien Etoile hotel

Each floor of the hotel has vending machines, including one for beer. No ID required. If you're tall enough, you're old enough. Just pay with credit card or your phone.

Sent from Kyle's AT&T iPhone

Notre Dame Cathedral

Paris

On the "Big Bus" tour, at the Arc de Triomphe

Susan's conference has "welcome" signs up at the Paris airport

Summer solstice sunset, Carcassonne, France

Church within the castle walls

Carcosson, France

La Cité, the medieval citadel in Carcassonne, a hilltop town in southern France's Languedoc area.

Dusk in Homps, France

Kyle working a line while boat rising in a lock

Biking through a vineyard near Homps, France

Capestang church from 1200's

The French canal gang

Capestang, France

Captain Susan steering us into a tunnel

Good morning from Colombiers, France

Not us

Just an old, sunken boat, tied to the shore.

Going under bridges

Made it through our first lock

Underway