1 Week's Time

It took me a little over a week to get incredibly lost. You know that map I was bragging about always having? Well it doesn't quite cover all of Paris...mostly the place I ended up today. How did this happen, you ask? Let me tell you...

Liz is volunteering at Shakespeare and Company...you know, that super famous bookstore. Well today was her first day, and since I was off I was going to stop in and say hey and see how it was going. When I got there her boss sent her out on errands. Since I had nothing to do, I decided I would accompany her. The first stop sounded relatively easy....make some copies of keys made.

We were told to go to BHV...which is like Belk and Lowe's all in the same store. Weird, I know.  So we headed to the basement where DYI and hardware is. We found a key counter and tried to say that we needed copies made. He understood us, but we did not understand his response. He said what sounded like up one floor, outside, lamp. He also told us that they could not copy one of the two keys we needed. We left the department confused and went outside hoping to see a magic key making stall like he promised. Of course, we didn't. So...we decided to try again. We went back to the counter where a different employee only said to us outside, rue du temp. This at least translated to a street name to us. Of course we didn't know where the street was! We headed back out, turned a different direction, and there it was Rue de Temple, and there was a sign hanging there with clef and a picture of a key! We dropped the key off and ten minutes and 22 euros later ( I KNOW RIGHT!!!) we were done. We headed back across the river to the store.

Errand 2 found us delivering a mysterious package to someone in the 14th arrondissement. This required us to take the metro...not a big deal. It was difficult, however, because the street we needed wasn't on my map. We still managed to get to our destination and drop off the package after a very jumbled conversation with a receptionist via call box. Liz had to head back to the burbs to tutor her kids and I decided that I would walk home based on the map at the subway and I would eventually get back to my map's territory. Unfortunately for me...this never happened.

I wandered, and wandered, and roamed. I consulted maps at metro stops and the pay to use toilets I passed, but I wasn't getting anywhere. Eventually I found a commercial shopping center/mall and I threw in the towel. I found a metro stop and rode back to my hood.

There is only so much random walking I can do when I don't have a clue where I am.

I am now going to rest my poor little feet until Zumba and BodyPump this evening.

à bientôt!