I’m pretty much tired of typing these mini-books, so I’m gonna keep this one short and sweet.

Today begins like most other days on a 2 month vacation…coffee and a croissant. Speaking of which, I’ve started to enjoy getting just an espresso instead of w/ milk. Although, I still enjoy the taste of coffee, when you have to pay double and sometimes more to get milk, espresso starts to make more sense. Just a couple of sips and your all done, the only problem with this is that Eli still hasn’t made the switch, so I ended up waiting for her to finish hers. Oh well.

After breakfast, it’s a short metro trip to the Arc de Triomphe. A few pics later and a bit of confusion on how to actually get to it, we were on the “island”. About 10 streets all intercept at this point, so it’s a HUGE roundabout with the Arc sitting right in the middle. We climb up, snap some more pics of the city, and we’re spent.

A stroll down the Champs-Elysees and we’re back down by the museums. We were going to return a book Eli bought at the Louvre because the back cover was all fucked up, but they are closed on Tuesday, so that didn’t happen.

Off to the Orsay Museum….While this place is no Louvre, its size is nothing to squawk about and it houses mostly 19th century French art. This basicily means impressionism shit… It was nice to see all those famous pictures you seen in postcards, prints, and history books. You know… starry night by van Gogh, Monet’s self-portraits, Degas’s ballerinas etc.

Onward to the Rodin museum….sculpture park plus 10 or so rooms of mini-sculptures made this a nice quick visit. Well, also because the place was closing as we were about half-way through the rooms. Notable works here were the famous thinker, and its mini-version, the gates of hell, again with a mini-version, and also the walking man.

After they kicked us out, we tried to squeeze a little bit more out of our museum pass and visit Napoleon’s tomb, but alas, we were about 5 minutes too late and the last entry had already happened. Oh well.

A quick 10 minute walk back to our hotel and a visit to the grocery and we’re eating a cheap dinner tonight.

Tomorrow will be interesting. We’re trying to make it to palace Versailles, but the French transit union is going on strike, so getting there might prove to be problematic, if not impossible. Hopefully, they can take care of whatever they are striking for, because we need to get to the airport the next day to fly home.

Fingers Crossed. Sorry no pics, only 3 minutes of time to post this one.