From Paris

After a few days in Paris I have finally figured out a way to post to my blog. I had to buy a card from the front desk for big bucks, er, big euros, and use the computer in the lobby which is so very slow.

Anyway, Gin and I played mega tourist by going to the Musee d'Orsay to see all the impressionist paintings. We climbed Montmarte to see Sacre Coeur (again for me)
and lots of other museums.

I got a theory about the Louvre and the French.... you see, the Louvre has zillions of religious paintings... and thats no exaggeration. And the French aren't exactly religious people from what I can tell. So they probably stripped all this stuff from churches during the revolution and then didn't want it in their homes. It was probably headed for the dumpster when someone came up with the scam...

Let's collect all the stuff.. put in in a museum with a few good pieces of art and charge stupid Americans and Japanese lots of money to come here and see this junk.

We saw the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, and the Venus de Milo in about the first 5 minutes that we were there. Then there were endless halls of cherubs and saints and just 'holy art'. If you went to Catholic school, the other things they do with these paintings is make HOLY CARDS. We got those from the nuns every time we did something good. Kinda like a gold star...

Anyway... another cool thing we did was climb the steps to the top of the Arc de Triumph, all 284 of them!

We travelled in the subway a lot and are real pros at getting around. Only took the train in the wrong direction once and that was only because we heard the train and ran to catch it before it left only to find out after boarding that we forgot to check the sign to see where it was going.

OK... so today it is on to Rouen (roo-angh) and then to Caen.

Trying to post pictures... check here.