Cher Mainecourse,
Yesterday a few of us solaire guys braved the heights of Meudon’s (100-m) solar tower to get an unparalleled view of Paris. In one of the pictures you can see a tethered balloon near the Tour Eiffel that goes up and down every hour or two. (As if the blinking lights on Le Tour, IM Pei’s tetrahedron, and the Pompideu Center weren’t tacky enough.)
Later in the day, we rode a bus down to the Seine, where we boarded le Metamorphosis for a champagne dinner and magic show.
The boat couldn’t go anywhere because of the high water, but we rocked back and forth like we were really under way. The magic was really well done. Several levitations, disappearances, and reappearances of two shapely twin jeune filles got us all wondering what had happened to the laws of physics. Having made several bottles of wine disappear ourselves, we totter/toddled home afterwards happy with the indoor and outdoor magic of Paris
–rakkity