And we got straight to walking.
THE LOUVRE
This place simply took my breath away. It was a slice of the past. Thanks to Tahlia's excellent direction skills, we ended up losing our way once we got inside. Good thing, though, because we ended up seeing some amazing art that we wouldn't have if we had gone the way we planned.
When I saw the Mona Lisa I finally realized what all the fuss was about. The painting is alive. It's hard to describe, but it really seems like there is something very energetic there. You don't want to take your eyes off of it. You keep looking because you feel like something is about to happen. Strange, I know, but true.
And we're going again...
Walking around. Never really knowing where we are. Somewhere in the midst of rues, quais and ponts.
POMPIDOU CENTER
Very cool. Strange art. Some of it was down right annoying, actually. But there was an awesome rooftop restaurant. You could see all of Paris!
Last stop for the day...
NOTRE DAME
It was pretty heavy to be standing in its presence, but it was not so easy to appreciate it fully because there were so many people there. I thought it was great anyway!
NOTRE DAME
It was pretty heavy to be standing in its presence, but it was not so easy to appreciate it fully because there were so many people there. I thought it was great anyway!
It was an afternoon well spent. We headed back again to the hotel and I started my blog with Tahlia and Alana snoozing away......ZZZZZZzzzzzzz....
When Tahlia awoke about an hour later, she had a candy rapper in one hand and a golden ticket in the other. There was the faint taste of "laduree" chocolate in her mouth. She was convinced she had won a tour of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
Then she took out her Tarot deck (that she had bought in a French store only hours earlier) and proceeded to ask it questions of the mysterious ticket.
She fell back asleep and when she woke again, she had no recollection of the incident.
Alana declined to comment.
