Sunday again!

We have a few pages at home to upload, but it's harder to find a place to plug in that is Mac compatible. So for now just some quick thoughts.
This morning was raining, soft, grey, Paris rain. We have been tired, so it took us a while to get going. We decided to try not to over exert ourselves. As we did not pack an umbrella, our first order of business was to find one.

In the bottom of our local mall we did easily locate the sporting good section and purchased a horrible blue, green, red and yellow umbrella for 5 euros. I thought it would be hard to lose! It is sale season here in Paris, it seems the entire city is on sale, and some shops are open today for the sale. I haven't really indulged yet, but may tomorrow, Monday. The mood though is of a national holiday! Every French person on the street seems to be carrying a shopping bag, and by the looks of things, at least in our neighborhood, les printemps is winning.

We took le metro to les invaldes and walked around the back to the Rodin Museum. It is cheap to get in to - 3 euros, and has a beautiful garden filled with flowers and scultures by Rodin of course. The museum is small, only 2 floors, and has many nice studies in it. I enjoyed seeing the objects he had collected, some ancient sculpture, and paintings for the masters of his era, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir. There are many beautiful objects to see, Rodin's own paintings are quite charming, however the room filled with drawers of hands he sculpted was not in evidence. They are doing a bit of work on the museum, so maybe they will reappear afterwards.

By the time we left the museum it had stopped raining, so we ate in the garden outside of what was once Rodin's studio. Or so they say. A rather nice lunch, only marred by the loud Americans down the row. Whenever there is someone being completely loud, boorish, or inappropriate, it seems to always be an American. We realized that with our pettite french, and the information about how to greet people, we are now routinely being spoken to in French, sometimes we can almost play along.

We walked around the garden, Terry stalked tourists, especialy the asian girls, while I took a few holgas. Also I stopped to smell all the roses. They were beautiful, but disapointingly not fragrent.

As it was becoming a rather nice day, we walked along the blvd. St. Germain to the Latin quarter, stopping along the way to browse and poke our nose in here and there. The English language bookstores of Paris are stocked with many interesting reads, I am thinking of devoting myself to literature when we return, and after I finish the new Harry Potter.

An ad showing 2 Boston puppies stopped us in our tracks, and we were happy to hear from Rob and Bina that Duke is well. We miss him whenever we see a dog, or drop food on the floor.

Tonight we are having seafood in the Latin quarter, then tomorrow night a resturant that is called le Sommelier that Terry is especially eager to try. They match the wine with your food!

Au Revoir for now les amis!
xx