Paris day 4

We started the day with a walking tour. First stop was a church St Madeline. Immense church. I have had my fill of Churches. From there to the place d Concorde and the length of Champs Elessay. Bo fulfilled the obligatory shopping experience by buying a cute jacket there. After a brief rest at home we went to the neighborhood market (Marche des enfants Rouge) with food venders. The lebanese vendor made us great sandwiches and spoke a little Armenian. From there we walked to the George Pompidou center. A large museum of modern art. The ticket machine dispensers would not take my credit card and the attendant told us it only accepted French bank cards. Even the subway ticket machine accepts my Visa card! We went to the attended window where they accept Visa and asked for 2 tickets. She handed me the Visa printout to sign and it said €299 ($450) and the ticket printer kept spitting out tickets. She said OOPS. But they cannot refund it on the Visa card. She said the paintings may be modern but their accounting system is ancient. After a 5 minute wait the Manager showed up, filled out some forms and gave us the €299 in cash. We were unhappy but they redeemed themselves by giving us the 2 tickets for free. At one point a screaming alarm sounded. They made some attempt to evacuate everybody but not very successfully. After 5 minutes the alarm stopped and everybody resumed. We spent about three hours looking at the exhibitions, then walked home. The oldest market in Paris (Marche des Enfants Rouges which first opened in 1628) is one block from our apt. It is where we had Lebanese food. We went there again and had Moroccan food. Then we walked to Place de Vosges and park Louis XIII.