Yay!!! The French have won the quarter finals or so in the Rugby world championships! Before I forget...here is the link to some photos that we have taken...be warned...there are a LOT of them...you don't have to look at all of them, so no posts from my complaining mccomplainson father in law that there are too many photos :) http://www.photoworks.com/members/alexking
Two days ago, Andrew and I woke up and went to Versaille. We spent the day there eating, walking around, visiting churches, eating milk shakes at Mc Donald's (an awesome experience)! Then we went back to Paris. Our first stop in Paris was in Montmarte--which as I have said before and I will say again...it's our favorite place in all of Paris. So we went up this long trolley up to the top and took photos of the city, church, and Eiffel Tower. Then we went on a walking tour of the city for the Blanc Nuit. This was a series of modern art light exhibits. The lights ranged from neon, to fire, to flourescent, and the venues ranged from a city park, to a billboard, to a church, to a dance club. It was really cool, and apparently more than one million people participated in it. Benoit told us about it and provided us with a map (yes, I know, a bit silly considering our navigational skills), and then we walked and walked. We were heading for the Hotel d'Ville (City Hall),where large screens were showing the rugby game, but the game ended before we made it there. The revelry more than made up for it though as people started passing us on their motor scooters, and cars, all honking and shouting and cheering.
The next day was the first Sunday of the month, and therefore all of the museums were free. We had saved the Louvre for this day, and so we left home at 8:30ish and made it to the Louvre. (There were no lines!) and headed straight for the Mona Lisa and Venus De Milo. Due to our lengthy walk from the night before though, we only made it about 3.5 hours, before heading for a supermarket and home. Once we got to the supermarket, we bought a can of Ratatouille and a baguette. That evening Valerie and Benoit made us a Belgian dinner. Which apparently means if you eat it for dinner, and the next morning you eat left overs for breakfast too! It was great, bread, jam, butter, hot chocolate, and almond bread.
