Just the coolest stool ever!
2 ways to carry the jerome dreyfuss bag!

Today is SUNNY! It rains every night and mercifully only half the days. In the 3 days we have been here, it starts out with fog or rain then clears up midday. Still a Wisconsonite cannot complain about the weather when you can eat and drink your latte outside in November. The mums are still in bloom and everything is festooned with the heartier flowers.
Okay, I just had to have a bag yesterday, so we went to Gallerie Lafayette. It was Armistice Day, a semi-holiday and evidently the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. With no Thanksgiving to interrupt things, the decorations are up. The windows were ala Macys in New York. Fantastic animated creations, flying elves and birdish creatures in pinks and reds. But the windows were nothing compared to the shoppers. Older women dressed like high end rockers making you question whether you just saw Sonia Rykiel or Vivienne Westwood. All dramaticlly dyed frizzy bobs, skinny legged black pants, high, high black boots, red lips and layers of black eyeliner and mascara. Some fuzzy belted vest of all kinds of fur, real and faux.
The taxi driver was from Cameroon. He told us how proud he was of the US. We had done a great thing electing Obama and all that Bush had done was forgiven. Now, we made the Europeans look old minded and America was modern.
Then he gave us the greatest expression.
He said that the french have an expression, follow the la. The la is the music and and "we say we must follow the la". You (America) have given us a La, we must follow the la."
How could you not love these people!