Thursday May 21 Paris

Day 2 in Paris was Ascension Thursday. Many stores were closed, but not museums and restaurants. Ascension Thursday celebrates 40 days after the resurrection and Jesus and His ascension to heaven.

We hopped back on the tour bus and rode around for another drive through some parts of Paris. Our final destination was Musee du Louvre. This is the art museum that supposedly beats all museums. Di Vinci's Mona Lisa lives here, so does Venus de Milo (artist unknown). These and several other renown paintings and sculptures make this one of the most visited museums in the world. There were galleries and galleries full of naked statues, sculpted by really famous artists. Truthfully, I was more impressed by the art collection at Windsor Castle.

Before we left Paris, we stopped back at Rue Cler, a little street lined with grocers selling various food items, including the aromatic baguettes and formage (bread and cheese). For dinner the first night, we ate at a little bakery shop. For the second day, we ate at a Chinese restaurant (gasp!!). Everything in Paris is expensive! A hamburger would have costed 15 Euros or almost $20 USD. Contrary to what most people say, I found Parians to be very friendly. The lady who waited on us at the bakery treated us to a little scrumptous chocolate cake filled with chocolate mousse. It reminded us of a Hostess big wheel, but 100X better. If you say "Bonjour" and "Merci", people were super nice.


Looking out from the glass pyramid...

The Mona Lisa was actually very small.

One of the museum's gallery




Aphrodite, known as Venus de Milo

Bakery shop in Rue Cler with the really nice store clerk, standing but bent over on the far right

Chinese dinner in Paris with a stow-away, Bunny.