French Open

Here are some pictures from the French Open today. We saw a juniors match with Christina McHale from the USA on one of the side courts and then we went to Court Philippe Chartrier and saw Samantha Stosur from Australia beat up on Cirstea from Romania and Roger Fedderer and Gael Monfils - Fedderer beat the home town boy in straight sets.

We walked back to our hotel after the matches and took a taxi to get our rental car. Getting out of Paris during rush hour traffic was a nightmare but once we were on the freeway (although it was far from being Free - $28) we were feeling better about the decision to rent a car in France. We made it to Amboise around 11pm and we are all tucked into our beautiful manor room. Will post pictures of the chateau tomorrow.

Our story of the day!!!
We had just picked up the car in Paris and it was closing time at Avis so the guys were very anxious to get us out of there and their English was limited. We got no instructions on the car or how to work the GPS. The car was a little bittie Ford Ka (like a Kar, but from Boston). As we were heading out of Paris at 7:30 in the heat of rush hour, we decide to pull over and see if we are going the right way and try to get the GPS to work for us. So, Dan pulls over to the right and parks. All of a sudden a big guy on a motorcycle is banging on Dan's window. Well, we could not figure out how to roll down the window - there was no window button on the door. So we both shrugged our shoulders (as the French do) but the guy was yelling at us in French. So, Dan decided he probably should open the car door because we could tell the guy was not happy about something. Apparently, when we pulled over, he was trying to pass us on the right and we cut him off. We apologized profusely and finally he calmed down. What an experience for our 1st car rental in Paris!! By the way, the window opener was on the center dashboard under the AC vents!

Hope everyone is well on the other side of the pond!!!