Follow the Money: Palais Royal, Covered Passages, le Musee d'Orsay and Uchtdorf
Thursday, May 12. Today was a long, but good day. I don't have much to say today. We saw lots of cool things and I enjoyed the day. The weather has been less then agreeable this week, but it's still not too cold, so i'm not complaining. It pretty humid here actually, not too bad most of the time. That does make the cold quite terrible unfortunately. I can take heat and sweat, but I can't do cold. We son't get along. We were blessed to be able to go to Versailles to hear president Uchtdorf speak. I'm not entirely sure why he was here, but he spoke to us a lot about faith and preparing for the new temple. It was a good meeting. The meeting got over around ten and we got home around eleven thirty pm. I was up till one in the morning doing homework before I just quit. Oh the sacrifices we make for religion. Totally worth it.

 These shops by the Louvre are chic and very expensive. They're like the flea market, but nicer. We went inside to look around. Most of the shops were closed, but that didn't stop us from feeling inferior just by setting foot inside the building. It seemed the very walls were laughing at us, saying that we were too poor to be there. It's amazing how that can happen. Needless to say, we left pretty quickly.

Can't have too many dogs right? 

 Le Louvre

The comedie francaise theatre. Though Moliere never performed here himself, he watched performances and his troop performed here. He had a special chair just for him which is now inside this theater. We couldn't go in without buying a ticket to see a play. That would be a dream of course, but it couldn't happen this time.

 Isn't this the coolest metro stop ever? It's right outside the theatre.

 
The garden de Palais Royal. I don't know what the designer was thinking or if these striped things have a real purpose or meaning, but they were fun to climb on.

 
This statue is a bird whisperer. :)

 
Look at this little boy looking up at the trees! He's adorable. I think he's looking at a bird.

 

 
This is where the opera house once stood.  I'm sure it was grand back in its day. It would have been soo cool to see it.

 We found this store that had old coins from all different time periods. So cool!

 
This is the french equivalent of Wall Street. We wanted to go inside, but apparently they only allow tourists in September. Who knew? McKenna was disappointed. She's a economics major after all.

I just thought this was fun. :)

 
 These passages are similar to the flea market and there are also many restaurants. It smelled so good. We found all kinds of cool things there like old post cards that date from the nineteenth century and on. Looking at some people's writing on those I wonder how anyone could possibly read that, no matter what language it's in.

This is a wax museum that cost more than we were willing to spend on a ticket, but apparently it houses some of the most famous wax sculptures.  Could have been cool. Oh well.

 
This is the musee d'Orsay. It was originally a train station, but was transitioned to the museum after trains switched from locomotives to electricity.

Our lovely tour guide Bernie. He gave us the most detailed lesson on art I've ever had. It was awesome! 

 

 

 
Visited with Van Gogh again. We're becoming great friends. I thought about going into great detail about each painting for you, but then I got lazy, so you'll just have to enjoy them and guess who they're by too because not all of them are by Van Gogh. Have fun with that.