We are already halfway through our stint in Paris, which is hard to believe. Tomorrow we're finishing up sightseeing in Paris, then Saturday we are visiting Versailles and celebrating Bastille Day! It's I think like the 4th of July, but we're not entirely sure what all goes on. We know there's a parade on the Champs-Elysees, and we're hoping for fireworks! How cool would that be!Today was our big museum day... but we only hit two museums after all, instead of the three that we had planned at one point. We started at the Musee d'Orsay, and after a lunch break hit the Musee du Louvre. I'm not even going to lie, we were in the Louvre for like an hour and that's it. We like art, really we do, but that's a LOT of art. Apparently we have a very high capacity for overstimulation. We saw the Mona Lisa (which is only famous because the king Francois liked it; it's a nice painting, but really no great shakes), the Venus de Milo (also not as amazing as it's made out to be), and the Winged Victory (I did like that one a lot). We also saw lots and lots of other things as well, of course; it's the Louvre--you can't really avoid seeing lots of art. After our museums we walked through the Toulieries gardens and down the Champs-Elysees. We actually went and sat in the McDonald's (cheapest seats we could find) to write postcards. Let me tell you, we felt classy.
I also wanted to make a quick note on city smells, which I commented on in an earlier post. We are discovering new city smells, especially in the subways, which make me laugh. Parisian subways, in the morning during rush hour, smell like bread! There are little stores actually in the subway where you can buy baguettes and doughnuts and such... and they smell amazing. The Belgian subway was even better--it smelled like waffles! Isn't that the greatest?We are paying through the nose for this Internet time (2 or 3 times more expensive than anything else we've seen in Europe) so I will sign off for now. Love to all at home--we miss you!
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