Sunday morning

It's 7:00 am now, and Joe and Lessie just left headed to the airport. I worry about them making it OK since they had three large bags and a carry-on to manage through the subway and then the train to get there. At least it shouldn't be too crowded since it's early on Sunday morning. I have to do much the same thing tomorrow morning, but I'm going to take an expensive taxi because I'll have 3 bags and a carry-on to manage by myself.

This morning I play for the Sunday morning service at the American Church with Fred Gramman on the piano. That's pretty exciting. It's a big gothic church and very pretty, but not so big that I'll get lost. I'll try to get some pictures. The problem with these places is that they're dark, and unless you get pretty close to something it just doesn't show up.


This is from the church last night. I entreated Joe to go to the front to take some pictures of me with this backdrop while I was playing, but he didn't want to do it. This is the adult handbell choir. They've only been playing for about 2 years, and are doing very impressive things with level 3 handbell music. Bonnie hopes to move them up a notch, and I think they're ready for it. This picture came out pretty well, but it doesn't show just how cold they all are.

It's just getting light enough outside now so that I can see that it's going to be a beautiful day today. Probably still pretty cold, but that's OK if it just won't rain. I've got to take the subway down to the church, so I'm going to leave a little early to walk around some. It's very close to the Eiffel Tower and many other spectacular sights.