I visited Shimon in Paris in August 2002.

In the Louvre with Mona Lisa and all the other tourists who want to see her.

The pyramids of the Louvre from below.

Shimon makes his first appearance on camera in the modern art museum whose name escapes me.

Shimon Lights Up

The Jewish Museum in Berlin on a Wall in Paris

Encased in Wire

Notre Dame, all Shining White from the Restoration

The Eiffel Tower

I have a poster of this painting on my wall in Ann Arbor. This is a picture of the original on a wall in the Picasso Museum.

Emily and a Giant Thumb

I was fascinated by signs about pickpockets. I took at least four photos of them, but I will only bless you with this one.

Taking a good photograph in Versailles is like...impossible.

Shimon and a Fountain in the grounds of Versailles

"I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend..."

At the Top of the Arche de Triumphe

Proof that I was in Paris

On the Ground at the Arche de Triumph

The Geodome. I don't remember the Mona Lisa from my visit to Paris as a ten-year-old, but I vividly remember this. And the long lines to get inside. (It's a movie theater.)

Is that a science museum I see reflected in the Geodome? Me and Shimon also saw Dr. Strange Love here.

Here we are again.

Pretend this picture is artistically rather than accidentally blurry. Shimon on his new rollerblades. I put this picture in because we actually spent a lot of time on rollerblades.

One of the many neat things about Paris in the summer: Paris Beach, a stretch of road down by the river closed off to traffic and packed with food, pedestrians and entertainment.

A Kosher Sushi Resteraunt in the Jewish Quarter

At the Train Station before we left I took a picture of another one of my obsessions: All the Different Names for Wahl/Langnese ice cream. Goodbye Paris.