Days 5-6 in Paris ...

On Wednesday, Dec. 19th, we had booked an all-day tour by bus from Paris to the Normandy battlefields. It was a rainy day on the coast, so umbrellas were much in evidence. Nancy was standing with umbrella-in-hand right down by the beach. While visiting Omaha Beach, and the other four landing sites on June 6th, 1944, we walked around the U.S. cemetery near the beach where the U.S. flag was flying at half-mast due to the tragic deaths at Sandy Hook School.

On Day #5 we joined Doug and Tracy and kids to take the train to Versailles where we spent several hours touring the magnificent palace first built by Louis XIV of France. It was obviously an opulent "house" for French royalty -- with paintings and sculptures galore! - rw