Carla Bruni Next Door?????

About a week ago I got a message from the young British lady who watches our cats and apartment whenever we travel, that Carla Bruni (the very pregnant wife of Nicholas Sarkozy AKA the French President) was going to have her baby at the Clinique Muette which is the Obstetric Hospital right next door. She was wrong but evidently had seen a news report where Carla's father told the reporter that she was going to have her baby there.

This is the same place previously mentioned here that is SO different than American hospitals in that there is no loading dock nor is there any parking which means that everything either coming or going IE: trash, expectant mothers, supplies, etc. goes through the front door. The news reports also all state that the Clinic has undergone a facelift in preparation for the arrival of the president's wife which led us all to wonder what it was like before and why it needed to be so updated..........*

Needless to say we currently live amidst hoards of paparazzi and media folks including television crews who've staked the clinic out hoping to scoop each other when Carla arrives and perhaps even sneak in and get exclusive photos and film of her in labor and pushing the baby out. It's already a narrow one way through street and this has made it even weirder and more congested.

I doubt if this will make the news in the US but if she does have her baby here you'll all know that it was right next door to our apartment building and we have a birds-eye view of the street where all of the vultures await her arrival.

Love to all!

A bientot,

Sid