we went to the Musee d'Orsay. We looked at an exhibit of Fontainebleu forest paintings in the Romantic style. We then we up floor by floor. There was a neat artistically done video of a couple and dog on a balcony that Monet had worked on I guess. The top floor in particular was pretty crowded. It brought back memories of being there before. I love all the paintings so much and I think i actually got more out of it seeing them a second time. We had a lunch of cheese on baguette sandwiches in the museum cafeteria.
We walked up the Seine past the Hotel Quai Voltaire! We went out on Pont Neuf. Lots of HS aged kids hanging out there. We went by the Palais the Justice and Sainte Chapelle but didn't go in. We did go into the Notre Dame. It was dark but amazing gorgeous. Such nice colors in the stained glass. There are lots of little altars all along the side for different saints and people.
I had forgotten about the crypt of Paris until we walked by it. I remember liking it but we didn't bother this time. We took the metro to Sacre Couer and went inside. Amazing white domes on top and neat painting with lots of gold inside. THere was a woman doing cabaret singing on the steps of the Sacre Coeur.
Lots of people asking for money the way to start it seems to be excuse me do you speak english. Much different from Copenhagen where you see no beggers or homeless.
We walked all the way back to the hostel along a street with lots of shops. There was a little river that was very dirty that we had to cross over.
We got our bags and went to the station. We didn't realize we needed a reservation for the train and the man wouldn't let us on and we couldn't buy on from him so we missed that train. We got on another one though two hours later. A 26 yr old was in our train car who graduated from Harvard, is a history major and is studying in Paris. We talked with him for a while about Smith and traveling and European cities, and stuff.