Paris Final Week - 7/18 thru7/19, Ducks, Rain, Hair, and Fried Chicken

We putzed around the boat since most businesses are closed Mondays. 

Lee worked and I did laundry, some cleaning, and photographed the river and its' new duck family.  I saw them crossing the river and, at first - no camera in hand of course, could not figure out what it was.  They traveled as one and only when they got closer could we see it was the mother and her 9 very new babies. 


We fed her some bread and the babies snapped at bugs while they kept following her towards the bread. 


I took a video of them and uploaded "DucksOnSeine" to YouTube.  Ignore the audio... Apparently, I cannot speak well when I am filming something.

The weather was quite disturbed and it rained off and on most of the day.

Tuesday, the 19th, dawned nice, but turned to crap fairly quickly.  Good news was that the duck family was OK in the morning, bad news was that we didn't see them the rest of the day.  

Di braved the gangway and the rains to go get her hair done... a foil - they called it a 'mesh' and they did it with plastic wrap, not aluminum  foil - and a haircut.  This was fascinating especially with no one speaking English in the Sergio Bossi salon.  Alison did a great job and it looks quite good. 

And then the rains got heavier and the water level kept rising. 

There were 3 buoys that the rowing club uses; 2 of them are gone and the third moved about 30 meters down river and the river was flowing over it. 

Where is Noah when you need him???    I think the fish were washed downstream!

Dominique told us later this week that he has seen the water up over the road where the cars are parked - meaning the gangway went down to the road not up to it.  So this wasn't so bad.

We had fried chicken and potato salad for dinner trying to get a picnic 'air' in the wet.