Paris I

We decided to celebrate our fourth anniversary in Paris this year. Up until this point, we had visited Paris often, but without really taking the time to really relax, see it, and enjoy it. We've gone to church services there, we've picked up friends and family from the airport, we've had work-related appointments and a cooking class... Not a lot of sight-seeing. So we decided to spend a long weekend there and enjoy some museums and see some sights.













We really enjoyed walking at night. The monuments, churches, buildings, fountains, statues, etc. are beautifully lit at night. On our first night there we explored the Tuileries and the Louvre gardens and then walked along the Seine to the Notre Dame cathedral. The next day we took most of the day to see the Musee d'Orsay, an extraordinary museum in the center of Paris of collections of art (painting, sculptures, decorative and graphic arts, photography, and architecture) from 1848 to 1914. The museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, itself a work of art! We saw very famous painting after painting.. the kind you see in your literature and art books in school, on greeting cards, prints all over the world. You have to hold your chin up as you walk from room to room. A very interesting place!