Paris Part Un
April 1st, 2005(Requisite pictures are here.)
We flew in yesterday after quite the trip. We arrove at the Chicago airport about 1 hr before our flight was set to take off and ended up running through the airport a lot. This was only to be followed by a guy on the plane who was very very drunk behind us. He kicked our seats a lot. He talked in slurred words to us. He rubbed my hair. He grabbed my boob. We did manage to get a few hours of sleep though.
We woke up in Paris on Thursday. In the afternoon we walked around historic Paris visiting Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle, etc. In the evening we discovered Pompidou – an incredible modern art museum. You’ll recognize it in the pictures as the building with all the tubing, stairs, etc on the outside. Definitely my favorite so far in the trip.
Today we went to the Louvre which was mind numbing as always. There is 12 miles of artwork there that is on the whole pretty spectacular. It was very crowded though. I made Meghan go look at the Mona Lisa herself because there were so many Japenese tourists cough I mean people… (what is the deal with the Japenese and their cameras anyway???). In the afternoon we visited the Arc d’Triumph for a scenic view of the city and strolled down the Champs Elysee.
We topped the evening off with a wonderful meal at the Vin de Pyrenees. I had some very good duck and we had a lovely bottle of wine. And now it is time to retire.. Au revoir.