Visiting Paris Pre-2024 Olympics: My Rhymes and Reasons 8.2
My Rhymes and Reasons 8.2-Hear about our visit to Paris Pre-2024 Olympics on today’s Friday Edition
Hear about our visit to Paris Pre-2024 Olympics on today’s Friday edition of My Rhymes and Reasons. All week we’ve been gleaning lessons from the Olympic Games in Paris. Well, let me conclude this week’s worth of meditations in the morning by telling you about our most recent visit to Paris about 6 weeks ago. Wendy and I were there on our way back from Switzerland.
Wendy had been a French major in college and had not really been able to spend much of any time except one day 8 years ago when we walked 10 miles over 12
hours in the city of light. But here we had a chance to spend a full weekend, four days on our way back home from 3 months in Switzerland. We took the fast
train from Basil to Paris and wouldn’t you know it’s raining much like the Opening Ceremonies that we watched on Friday night last week.
They had to walk about a mile and a half from the train station to our hotel in the rain, pulling our suitcases. The uneven pavement caused my wife to fall because she had an umbrella in one hand and her suitcase in the other. She did not brace herself as she fell; she did a face-plant in front of an outdoor Cafe, falling flat on her cheek.
Oh my goodness! It could have been so tragic. She could have hit her head, she could have knocked out her teeth. She landed on the left cheekbone area part
of her face and it was awful. We ended up in the ER of a nearby hospital for 5 hours trying to determine if she needed any stitches or if there were broken
bones that needed to be surgically repaired.
We didn’t know what it was, but it was not the way you want to arrive in a city where you don’t know anybody, nor a place you’ve been looking forward to a wonderful weekend to visit. So before we even got to our hotel, this fall created havoc that would cast a cloud over the whole weekend.
With an ice pack, Tylenol, and disinfectant, she survived. We were able to visit museums (you can hear more in the video above).
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