FROM RICHARD,

What a trip  it has been...  Today was nothing short of the rest of the journey.  Myself and John A woke up with the roosters (around 8), and walked to find a bakery with chocolate croissants.  Then before lunch our crew of 8 headed up to one of the highest points in Paris to visit Basilica Sacre Cœur and some venders up the road.  In the church we witnessed a real Catholic Church service, with priests and nuns and it all.  After lunch, we headed over to some French history and Napoleon's toom.  I never thought tooms could be beautiful before today, but Napoleon, his counter parts, and siblings proved me otherwise.  After we witnessed our ancient history for the day, we headed over to some current sports history.  At 5 the crew, headed over to the PSG (Paris's soccer club) and toured their arena.  As this concluded our visits to soccer stadiums, Wic brought up a masterful point that, we have gone to Barcelona's stadium (Spanish league champs), Bayern Munich's (European and German league champs), and PSG's (French league champs).  Overall the teams and this trip has been a mighty success, but we are not done yet...  After PSG, the group and I got ready to go to our greatest outing yet, where we knew we would have to throw down some cash.  I had the shrimps and cheese mash potatoes which was masterful.  To top  it off I had some Chocolate moose for dessert.  Most of the group has said this was either their best or top 3 best meals ever.  I agree that the  authenticity and overall quality of the meal was one of the best I personally have ever had.  On a side note:  Wic won the biggest spender award with a 73 euro tab, including 2 appetizers.  Congrats to him.  Now we are in the lobby jammin to some French and American.  This is all for tonight.

OVER AND OUT FROM,

RICHARD JAMES BAIRD