Today we celebrated Gigi's 65th birthday in the beautiful neighborhood of Montmartre. Also, I just discovered that I can add text through this fancy "compose" tab, and for some reason everything is underlined. Not sure why, maybe I'll figure that out eventually. Anyway. Here are Sophie's grandparetns making out in front of the Moulin Rouge. Typical.
After a stroll through the market streets, (mysteriously, the underlining is gone. Hm.) we rode the funiculaire to the top of the Butte and toured through the Sacre Coeur, then ambled to the Place du Tertre, a wonderful tiny square where all sorts of artists camp out with restaurants all around the sides where one can sit, literally for hours sipping appertifs and munching cheese, watching the artists and tourists and the sun set.
Soon it was time for a nap walk in the Moby Wrap for Miss Sophie, but dad still got his whiskey!
The Sacre Coeur is stunning at any hour, but all lit up like this it is simply heavenly.
After our cocktail hour, we walked to Brian's and my favorite restaurant in all of Paris, the Moulin de la Galette. It is housed beneath one of the two remaining original windmills on the hill, dating back nearly 600 years. The gardens that were once behind the windmill was a dance hall, made famous by several impressionist painters who lived in Montmartre, including Renoir and Monet. It is now a small and excellent restaurant where, each of the four times now that we have been there, we have had amazing food, and felt welcomed like family.
Gigi and Sophie discuss entrees and plats...
After an amazing dinner, the staff surprised us with a birthday plate of petit fours, decorated with "Joyeux Anniversaire", Happy Birthday!
After a stroll through the market streets, (mysteriously, the underlining is gone. Hm.) we rode the funiculaire to the top of the Butte and toured through the Sacre Coeur, then ambled to the Place du Tertre, a wonderful tiny square where all sorts of artists camp out with restaurants all around the sides where one can sit, literally for hours sipping appertifs and munching cheese, watching the artists and tourists and the sun set.
Soon it was time for a nap walk in the Moby Wrap for Miss Sophie, but dad still got his whiskey!
The Sacre Coeur is stunning at any hour, but all lit up like this it is simply heavenly.
After our cocktail hour, we walked to Brian's and my favorite restaurant in all of Paris, the Moulin de la Galette. It is housed beneath one of the two remaining original windmills on the hill, dating back nearly 600 years. The gardens that were once behind the windmill was a dance hall, made famous by several impressionist painters who lived in Montmartre, including Renoir and Monet. It is now a small and excellent restaurant where, each of the four times now that we have been there, we have had amazing food, and felt welcomed like family.
Gigi and Sophie discuss entrees and plats...
After an amazing dinner, the staff surprised us with a birthday plate of petit fours, decorated with "Joyeux Anniversaire", Happy Birthday!
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