Three-quarters around 9-20-15

Saturday was a quiet day, we all went to a brocante market and then parted ways.  Pat and Barb were able to take a quiet walk along the canal and see the neighborhood without a constantly running commentary of mine or Deb's.   Deb and I went back to the apartment and vegged out for a few hours before we all went to dinner at the great fish restaurant near us.
Today we wanted Pat and Barb to see the other side of Paris, that being the modern business oriented area called La Defense.  In order to get there we took the long way
around and used the trams to ride around the city.  From our apartment it takes us approximately three-quarters of the way around Paris.
It was finally a sunny day with little chance of rain so we jettisoned umbrellas and rain coats, which was a pleasant change.  They said that they enjoyed seeing all the different neighborhoods and building styles as we progressed around.  We arrived at La Defense and had a bit of a walkaround, up to the plaza that lies in the shadow of the Grand Arche where we could really see a great view of Paris and of the suburbs to the west.   Then back on the metro to the stop near the Louis Vuitton Foundation where we had lunch in a local restaurant.   We were able to watch the second half of the Rugby World Cup game between the U.S. and Samoa,  unfortunately the Samoans won.  It's interesting to see one of our possessions (with .5% of our population) beat us at a game where we should really excel.  Oh well, spoken by an ex-player.
Following lunch we went to the Gehry building housing the Louis Vuitton Foundation, we had planned to go in but the line was far and away the longest we've seen since we started coming out here.  It snaked back and forth over a several hundred foot pavement at the side of the building, so we opted out on a trip inside.   Instead we jumped on the shuttle that runs from the Arc de Triumph over to the foundation, and spent a quiet hour or so at the Arch.   Lots of traffic and we were aghast seeing several groups of people shun the underpass over and try to hoof across on the street level.  No accidents but LOTS of horns and brakes!
We caught a bus that took us along the Champs Elysee and directly to the stop adjacent to our bus stop to the apartment.