A damp Saturday!

Its been dripping most of the day, grey and cool and damp.

Breakfast buffets are interesting with Mom and her dementia. Mom's dementia is increasingly becoming focused on problems with ordering things, like the bra and panties go on before the stockings. A buffet is kinda like that too, in which case one could survey what's being offered, ponder the choices and your wants and your hunger, and pick appropriately. This, for Mom, is of course not possible, so my adaptation has been to tell Mom and then show her what's there, and then asking her what she might like to have to eat; this seems to work well, and I can tell by what she's had to eat what she's liked and if she'd like some more, like this morning with the four glasses of orange juice!

Found the American church in the rain, went to 11AM Mass and Mom was really peaceful and smiling, then went purse shopping at Galleries Lafayette (along with half of Paris, it seems) and found one that met Mom's criteria for looks and my criteria that it have a zippered/snapped compartment so that things don't fall out unbeknownst to Mom.

Did a bit more 'wandering' and stopped at La Maison du Chocolate and bought two eclairs for 'dessert' in the room tonight, this has to be the ritziest, most stylish, and expensive Chocolate shop I've ever seen. You can order their stuff from Williams-Sonoma. Pics are of the bag, the box, and the eclairs, and yes, on the eclairs is gold leaf! Had some ham and frites for a late lunch and on the way back to the hotel I found what I had not found, an actual supermarket! Bought some Coke Light (that's Diet Coke to us) and some snacks for on the trains Sunday, we're going from Paris to Salzburg with a change in Stuttgart. We'll also see what they have on the trains! By the time we get to Salzburg (2000 or so) we'll be off to the hotel and I'll try to see how I can the NFC/AFC Championship Games.