Ah Paris.....(day two)

We woke up in Paris and hit the town hard. Walked many, many miles as well. Beautiful day. First we hit the D'Orsay museum which featured the rise of impressionism. Very killer museum, with lots of paintings that really are in my genre of favorites. Really cool to get up close and examine the style of blotted colors adding up to a brilliant painting.



After several hours in the D'Orsay seeing every square inch of the place, we went on a hunt for some quality baguette sandwiches, and got there by first wandering across the Seine and walking through the gardens alongside the Louvre. That place is immense. Never even stepped foot in there...wouldn't know where to start. But the garden was nice. People watched for awhile in the sun and had our lunch. Then started walking up the garden towards the Champs Elysee.



The Champs is a long walk, that progressively gets closer and closer to the Arc de Triumph. Along the way the sidewalk gets wider and wider and the people more dense. We got a bitchin crepe along the way, and did some shopping in some of the stores. Crazy in there. French people and tourists trying on clothes in a frenzy with loud American hip hop blaring out of speakers. Kooks.



Made it finally to the Arc, pretty impressive and massive. Hooray for Napolean.



After making it all the way back to our place in the Latin Quarter, we were exhausted and hungry (and thirsty). I learned my lesson the night before that buying beer and wine out in the restaurants is expensive and dicey, so while Lori took a little siesta, I searched out some wine and beer from the street, and got some meat and cheese for a primer. We downed all that, got cleaned up and made our way to Le Loop Blanc, which was a restaurant our friend sent us too. Good chow, and fun sitting out and watching the night come on.



Home late. Long day in Paris...