We spent our last day with Denny and Ellen walking around Aix. Being a fan myself, I can appreciate a city that names a street after a black mule:
We headed down the Cours Mirabeau to the market near the Hotel de Ville, where we shopped for provisions for our farewell dinner. A moss-covered fountain on the Cours Mirabeau:
Denny with his hipster macarons:
Wow, were those tasty. I felt like being outside in the sun, so while the rest of the crew took in the tapestry museum, I walked to the Pavillon de Vendome, built by the Duke of Vendome to house his mistress in what was then the outskirts of Aix. I sat in the sun by these nice blobby shrubs and made a little vitamin D:
Trompe l'oeil paintings by Jean Daret at the Hotel Chateaurenard, painted in honor of Louis XVI's visit to Aix in 1660. Old Louis was so impressed by the paintings (I think it was the birdcage in particular) that he made Jean Daret his official painter.
After our fabulous farewell dinner of steak and oysters, rooftop kitty theater:
The following morning, Roberta, mom and I drove back to Paris.
We headed down the Cours Mirabeau to the market near the Hotel de Ville, where we shopped for provisions for our farewell dinner. A moss-covered fountain on the Cours Mirabeau:
Denny with his hipster macarons:
Wow, were those tasty. I felt like being outside in the sun, so while the rest of the crew took in the tapestry museum, I walked to the Pavillon de Vendome, built by the Duke of Vendome to house his mistress in what was then the outskirts of Aix. I sat in the sun by these nice blobby shrubs and made a little vitamin D:
Trompe l'oeil paintings by Jean Daret at the Hotel Chateaurenard, painted in honor of Louis XVI's visit to Aix in 1660. Old Louis was so impressed by the paintings (I think it was the birdcage in particular) that he made Jean Daret his official painter. 
After our fabulous farewell dinner of steak and oysters, rooftop kitty theater:
The following morning, Roberta, mom and I drove back to Paris.
ROOFTOP KITTY I HEART YOU!
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