Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Eight: Our Final Day In Paris Day Nine – O Littlest Town Of Bethlehem, Chez Bien, A Day At The Opera, A Mai Tai In Paris, Herb Appeal and Get Me To The Eiffel On Time Quelle surprise!  We started the day with a […]

Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Seven: Christmas Day In Paris Day Eight – Joyeux Noel, This Old House (Jacquemart-André), Wandering Aimlessly, Is That Peggy Fleming, Where The Hell Am I, Giving Me The Finger and Dining Under The Dome It was Christmas morning in Paris, but just like every […]

Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Six: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Day Seven – Christmas Eve (Paris Style), Window Shopping, Mull Over This Wine Choice, Churches Large and Small, Fat Cat, Chicken On A Spit and The Really Ugly American Our string of blue-sky mornings ended, […]

Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Five: Museum Hopping & Le Florimond Day Six: The Infamous Rue Cler, A Grand Exhibition, There’s Been A Change In The Weather, The Lilies Let Down, Walk Like An Egyptian and Finally Florimond We got a pretty early start on the day, and the […]

Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Four: Walking Paris Day Five: Walk Till You Drop, The Attack Of The Newspaper Man, I’m Going To Croque, Is That Sperm In The Pantheon, Giving us The Bird, What A View And Fork It Over! Looking out the window as daylight finally arrived, […]

Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Three: A Taste Of Champagne Day Four: Citizen Cane, The Train To Champagne Then Quiche Lorraine, Reims Time, Unbutton Your Damn Coat, I Surrender, City Lights And The Apple(s) Of My Eye Tracy and I were up early, because we were going to take […]

Maitaitom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006 Chapter Two: Putting A Bounce In My Step Day Three: All I Kneed Is A Miracle, Which Painting Is This, Halles Passage, The Best Little Church In The World, The Shot Heard ’Round The World And Dining Like It’s 1699 The good thing about awaking […]

MaitaiTom’s Christmas Miracle: Paris/Reims 2006  Chapter One: Prelude To A Miracle, and (for better or worse) Paris We We Come! Days One and Two: Nightmare at 38,000 Feet, Dawn Of The Dead, The Ferris In Paris And The Kindness Of Strangers   (To fully explain the ‘miraculous’ part of our […]