Good Morning Viet... wait PARIS! 11/18/15

I talked with Deb early this morning since I missed her yesterday, she's getting a bit of a handle on what needs to be done there and hopefully will be able to ramp down a bit before coming back here on the 23rd.   I was dozing on the sofa in the dark when I kept hearing a helicopter around the area. That is not normal so I went out on the deck and looked around in the dark sky and finally saw it, but it was flying completely dark, no lights.  I'd been hearing sirens, but since that's been happening a lot lately I didn't think too much about it.  After seeing the copter I ran in and got my binoculars and went out again to see it I could see it better and I could but it was still running dark.  At that point I got on the internet and caught the story of them surrounding another suspected terrorist site with a gunfight ensuing.  It was up in St. Denis and the area is about 3 miles from here, I didn't hear any explosions or firing, but of course I don't have great hearing now either.  I'm glad they got this group, as it seems they were planning an attack out at La Defense, We won't stop trying to live our lives but we can't be lax about our surroundings either.
I thing I mentioned that I saw something at the auction house yesterday, so I went back today to watch the auction and see how things would develop.  It was quite interesting, there were some artists that evidently a couple bidders knew about because their works ended up selling for several times the estimates. Like one was estimated at 5000-6000 and ended up selling at 25000, who was that? Maybe they got my disease and wanted to set a new world record for the artist.  The piece I was interested in came up and it had a minimum that was 1000 euros higher that I was willing to spend, so no luck and no one else bid on it either.
On the way to the auction I took a new route that was quite interesting.  I took the special little Montmartre bus that winds all over the hill, and the Place de Tertre (at the top) was almost deserted except for the artists, eerie.  When I got to the end of the line the connector that I wanted to take had over a 30 minute wait, so I decided to walk.  It was downhill and through a less well known neighborhood, at least to me.  Very pretty buildings and squares.
I went into Galleries Lafayette for the first time today, did you know that Jimmy Choo sells men's shoes?  Me either, and I have to say that in Oz they would have given Dorothy a run for her money, all sparkly and such. I should have gotten pics but I was too speechless, of course that's how I am anyway.  At least in France.