Anna-thology

Traipsing about in the rain in Paris

Another long day of rainy sightseeing in a sight-filled city. I think tempers are wearing thin, just a lot of time in close quarters and a lot of women togetherness. :) We started our day with our usual wonderful breakfast. We tromped off in the rain to the Musee de Picasso - spending a few hours starting a t booby pictures of construed women - podering this man's sex obsession. It was enlightening and depressing simultaneously.

We next found lunch at a little bage shop in the Jewish district. I enjoyed some fabulous mushroom soup and baugettes and (praise God!) a Dr. Pepper for the first time on this side of the world! Warmed up by our soup and hearty laughter we hit the pavement again to find Victor Hugo's house (again!). It was pretty bare, but interesting, and thankfully free! He wrote Les Miserables, among other things. After that we boarded the dreaded RER to the Catacombs. Super creepy. I only agreed to it because Char really wanted to, but it was really cool. I just couldn't think about how far below the city we were (something like 134 steps) because of my claustrophobic nature. The valley of bones was so creepy, 6 million skeletons inhabit the deep recesses of the city. I couldn't help but wonder abou the spiritual consequences of that. The climb back up was treacherous and tight, another 96 steps in an even tighter spiral staircase - I struggled to breathe and continue to put on e foot in front of the other. We decided we were exhausted and headed for the hotel - stopping for a quiche first. Char and I decided we weren't that tired and opted to head to the Pompidou Center - the museum of modern ARt. It was fascinating - not my taste, but the building was intriguing and the most of the artwork was thouth provoking (some was just gross!) We took lots of crazy photos, saw some famous artwork. It was fun. We are (finally) going to the Louvre tomorrow morning. Char's staying here to work on some school stuff. Plus she' tired of museums - not really her thing. Can't wait to enter all this on my blog and create links to all the sites for you; just for fun. What an amazing trip. 2 more days!