I know I promised photos and a lengthy post yesterday, but my oh my it was a crazy day. First thing, we went the the Louvre. It's a beautiful museum but it took us about an hour to get in and once we were in we experienced our first bouts of French unkindness. C'est la vie, it's a story for another time. The Louvre is like being in a palace full to the brim of priceless art. It's very overwhelming, so many people and so many paintings and sculptures, it's easy to get lost. We got to see the classic Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo (whom I'm absolutely obsessed with, oh my gosh she's beautiful). Along with that, we had our fair share of other renaissance realism. Then, last night, we took the metro (for the first time!) down to Paris' African district and met up with Melissa again and she took us to her lovely little apartment where we drank juice and met her friend whose a refugee from Mali. They took us to dinner at a French restaurant where we ate snails for the first time and Lucie and Ben found their long lost favorite French drink, Pshchitt! We took the metro home and returned at about 11, hence why yesterday there was no blog post.
Today, we started off early at the Musée d'Orsay. d'Orsay is located in an old train station and is known as the museum for impressionists. It houses many famous artists such as Gaugain, Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Renior, Degas, etc. So far, it's been my favorite museum and I love love love the impressionist art. Everything is so vibrant and you can see every brush strokes. It was an amazing place. I got to see Degas' 'Tiny Dancer,' one of my favorite pieces as well. After then we went to Sennelier, where we bought our sketchbooks and the beginnings of our art supplies. In the afternoon, we went to la Musée Rodin where we saw 'The Thinker' and many other pieces of lovely sculpture. We all had our sketchbooks now too and enjoyed drawing the human bodies done in marble. Finalment, we went to the Eiffel tower! We were so happy to be able to walk on the grass and play in the sun and we took lots of pictures. Our feet are very very sore now, but we are happy to be in Paris and tomorrow we are headed to Versailles!
Now for pictures!!!
Le Licorne et La Dame tapestry at Musée de Cluny
Stained glass at the Musée de Cluny
Us outside the museum
the Seine river and the Louvre
Lucie and Ben in a panorama gone wrong
one of Paris' many lock bridges
a roman colliseum
Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Sue with Je Suis Charlie
With Angelo's mom outside his old school!
At the Louvre
Venus de Milo
ESCARGOT
Lucie eating snails
A Monet
Degas
Degas' Tiny Dancer
Le Groupe
In front of the eiffel tower!
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