Tom's Pictures -- Dec 13-18, part 2

These 2 photos are from the roof deck of the Galeries Lafayette department store.  The weather, while somewhat random, remains "friendly" to our various excursions.

This building is the "Hotel de Ville", or city hall.  Really an amazingly beautiful structure.  Every year at Christmas time, the construct an ice skating rink in front of it.  For some reason, they're also projecting cartoon images of penguins on the HDV, the building behind the skaters.

From the same spot, I look to the right and get a picture of Notre Dame.  I look to the left and the building is shrink wrapped in an Apple iphone 6 advertisement.  Presumably they're paying a lot for this?

Maxine at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Not wanting to be left out (see Hotel de Ville ice rink above), the people who operate the Eiffel Tower built their own rink.  It's on the first level of the tower, so I'm guessing it's one of the highest above ground ice rinks anywhere.  I thought the red model of the tower, with the real structure in the background, was amusing.  As for the skating, it's free too,

Maxine at the Rodin Museum.

Rodin's "The Thinker".  Yes, that one!

And a close up section of his "Gates of Hell"

Emmy and I at the cafe down the street.

Christmas lights on the esplanade at La Defense.  In the far distance, you can see that they frame the Arc du Triomphe.