WHAT a day and it is only 7:30pm. Okay, so I rolled out of my bed at 8am like a SLACKER I was upset with myself haha, anyways I showered up had some coffee and blackberry jam on baguette bread UM YUM and took the metro out to musee d’orsay…let me just say…I’ve been to several art museums but I don’t usually tear up and I don’t usually stay in one room for 20 minutes…Mr. Monet has my heart, it’s official. I’m going to go to le musee l’orangerie by le jardin de tulieries to see the full water lilies painting but seeing even a part of it and my breath was gone…and the bridge was there. I bought a book, 9 dollars of Monet pieces it was on sale so of course I bought it. Forgot to say, I bought two books yesterday, Le Petit Prince and a Baudelaire Book altogether 16 euro on sale, such a deallll.
In terms of souvenirs, I need to start buying some now? I waited too long in Pau might as well get what I want when I want it haha. This will be my motto for tomorrow, all I bought today was oranginas and my lunch was (at le musee d’orsay) a baguette with ham and cheese and butter, my new fav sandwich.
Anyways, after spending two hours wandering, seeing Monet, Manet, Cezanne, sculptures, Van Gogh…some symbolist pieces, Degas with his beautiful ballet scenes…you know..the most admired paintings ever in the history of LIFE, I jetted off on another metro to le centre pompidou museum…soooo different haha.
I went up the famous escalators and just it was soo freeing and artsy and scary and offensive and there was some REALLY abstract stuff and crazy eccentric presentations on film. like I watched a naked woman on a tv hold a chicken that just got its head cut off upside down until it died….it was her connecting to nature really artsy. Lots and LOTS of nude women, feminist stuff, crazy films and sculptures and just sooo neat. I felt sooo cultured!! My parents might not have, it’s very fresh and naked…literally haha. Then I went to the top of centre pompidou for pictures and strolled around the building a bit, had another orangina of course. I will live on them I’ve decided.
After centre pompidou I saw a sign for notre dame and since it was closed yesterday I figured I could see how long the line was and hop on in! Well, the line to get inside was long but it went fast and the inside was breathtaking, I feel sort of strange not being catholic though not in a bad way but I can’t imagine how spiritual it must be for those of the catholic faith to see it, I saw one man weeping.
After the inside, I found the big one, the bigggg line to the top top of notre dame 400 stairs to the top. Did I wait? Yesss of course! One hour and forty minutes I waited! While in line, I was terrified by this guy in a gargoyle mask who scares people on the street in front of the line and he just like…touches their shoulder and they turn or he walks up to them and they yell. Soo entertaining. The gargoyle guy even grabbed this one guy on the street’s hand and the street guy thought it was his wife and they walked along for a bit and then the guy realized it was a gargoyle haha sooo funny to watch. Got a picture with him.
Also in line I met Beatrice, she is from Brazil studied in Spain (not Aliciente (sp?), somewhere small I’d never heard of) for 5 months and was on holidy. It was her birthday! I also met two people from Florida, a mom and son BONDING together on holiday also and we had fun in line. Beatrice and I got along great and I helped her with English haha. FINALLY, after the long wait and another orangina haha, we started up…100 stairs and then we had to wait 5 minutes in the gift shop lobby place then 250 some stairs and we were in wonderrr, I saw gargoyles, I posed with the big bell, I saw the view of a lifetime. Thennn, we walked up another 150 stairs to the tippppytop and the view there was beyond words. Then we walked all the way down the 400 stairs, I got dizzy but asthma didn’t flare up at all so that was good. Beatrice was patient walking behind me haha and we sang we are the champions by queen on the way to the exit soo happy to be done with stairs!
Beatrice and I walked to a café for a drink and more pictures by notre dame, we both acted as each others photographers it was great! Then we hopped a metro down and up and down and up more stairs haha we hate stairs now! I will be sore for SURE tomorrow!!
Got back to my metro stop, bought an orangina and am sitting here at my computer relaxing. I won’t have a museum pass anymore so I will have to start waiting in actual lines :/ That’s dumb. Oh well, each museum costs like 8 bucks and I spent 32 bucks on a pass…I hit 6 of them so that means I got to see 2 of them for free!!! I planned it out well. I want to relax now, just chill. Eat dinner here at my homestay and maybe skype some people if my internet works haha.
SUCH an incredible day, I’m pinching myself every second in awe. I cannot believe im here but I do in part b/c I don’t worry about being lost I know I will find my way AND im in paris so who cares? Soooo happy. and sweaty, from all those damn stairs!
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