Cat's Adventures in the Wild: 6/11 - Paris Day 2

June 11 - Day 2 Paris landmarks

Paris guided sightseeing tour

Arc de Triomphe, Champs Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, Opera House

Louvre visit

Montmartre tour director-led sightseeing

Sacré Coeur, Place du Tertre, Moulin Rouge

Dinner in Montmartre

Feeling SO much better this morning! Can face the world & chaos!

Breakfast at the hotel is the perfecct start to our day! Healthy combination of fruits, fromages, pain et cafe!

Bus Tour & Lunch pictures -

2:43 pm

This is my firsts chance today o stop for a breather. So much going on!

We had the most wonderful breakfast at the hotell - they had all the healthy things I could want to eat. Visiting foreign countries makes me feel more at home than I do in Richmond sometime.

It was a buffet - but none of the usual heavy & sweet psteries/yogurts/cereals.

There was plain yogurt - I added fruit & dry oatmeal (mucelix). Also bguette & cheeses - Brie, blue & another soft cheese.

Lunch was after the bus tour. We had a couple of stops for pictures at the Eiffel Tower, get coffee / picked up lunch, then walked over to the Palace gardens for lunch.

Break for lunch - watched pigeons

The group got back togehter at a big mall area - Lafayette Galerie Mall.

We just walked BACK over to the Palace Gardens and rode the carouel with the other kids.

Merry-Go-Round!

Waiting for the last folks to join us before going to the Louvre. I'm kind of devastated we're starting the Loubre so late in the day. It needs to be an entire day to itself.

L'Arc de Triomphe!

Le Louvre!

Architecture of the Louvre is such art in itself

Winged Vicctory!

10:30pm - The Louvre was exquisite. I saw the winged headless angel (above).

Athena - Greece

End of the day - I'm hot - sweaty - trying to get this blog situated but unfortunately having technical issues with the picture downloads. I need a razor (which I fogot) and tooth floss (which I also forgot). It's 12:30 (because we didn't get back to the hotel until 11pm and... technical difficulties. My final working plan was to share the images with my other gmaiil account, then load them from there. I keep coming up with various work-arounds when faced with technical obstacles. <damn my eyes!> No clue what time we're supposed to start tomorrow. Hopefully it's no earlier than today because we just went to our room & skipped any debriefing that mightt have been planned. (hoping that wasn't a mistake)

Here are more pictures LOL

So just going to say.... I found the Mona Lisa neither "smallish" nor the line "too long" nor could I "see nothing untill I was riight there & only had a moment to take a picture & go.

The "line" is more of a Mosh Pit. I gave a shorer woman behind m a step in fron tof me so she could have a better view before getting through the front 'gate.' I saw ML over& over around heads... heer eye alway drawinig my gaze. The paintting is just the right size for a portrait - much larger than the Vermeer I saw later (woman making lace) and larger than the single DaVinci painting we have at the Smithsonian. She is elegant. She is discrete. She always catches and draws my eye back to her eye.

She is perfect.

This was VERY tiny.

All the Vermeer wannabes. Still excellent art from the Netherannds. I hope to go there one year.

The Greek Sstatues.... or were they the French?

I ove how the light playss in this space.

Lovely. Shells are just lovely.

Dragon for Anika

See this ast as we are departing.

Too little time to write much, but very happy with the chicken & rice dinner. Flavors were rich & buttery. They used all the skin. The mousse wasn't great. I skipped that & had ice cream (glasé) .... later - rum raisin & walnut. The walnut was wonderful, but the rum raisin had recrystallized.