I'm going to try to upload some photos, although facebook might be a better place to check out a few more... see my latest album, "a few from france" at www.facebook.com/timjquinn
we've been really busy in the last few days, seeing all the sights in paris. on sunday we went to the musée d'orsay, which has a lot of Monet, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Renoir, Manet, and others... then we went to the Marais district, and say the Musée du Carnavalet, which is all about the history of paris... this museum actually used to be Madame de Sévigny's house, a woman who famously wrote about aristocratic life a few hundred years ago... it was easily the biggest house I've EVER been in (likely to be trumped by Versailles tomorrow...) We walked around the Marais for a bit and when to the Eiffel tower at night, to check out the view when everything was lit up... it was gorgeous...
Yesterday we went to montmartre and, after seeing sacré coeur, we had lunch at the café des deux moulins, which is the café from the movie Amélie. It was extremely overpriced (as everything is here...) but still pretty good. there was a really drunk man in that restaurant at 11:45 am who gave me a good laugh... He had fallen asleep and was swaying back and forth, coming really close every time to falling completely out of his booth. It was pretty sad, actually, and I probably shouldn't have been watching as intensely as i did, but I've learned that people-watching is the parisian way, so since I'm here, I may as well do as the parisians do.
This morning we got up super early to head out to versailles, which i'll put pictures up of later, since I haven't put them on my computer. It's no wonder the french people rebelled against the monarchy...that place is such a waste of money it's unbelievable! I mean, I'm really glad that Louis XIV built it, because it's so insanely extravagant. but if i were a french peasant at the time, and I couldn't eat, I'd probably have been pissed.
I think we're gonna go explore the town some more. I'll try for more interesting anecdotes at a later point. a toute a l'heure!
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