Well, my loyal and faithful readers, after a near-record, gasp, 9 hours sleep to get over jet lag, Billi Pod and David finally started our second day on the rues of Paris.
After a pleasant 15 minute walk along the Left Bank of the Seine we arrived at Museum d’ Orsay - my favorite Paris Museum. Generally considered the world greatest Impressionist museum, we spent two and one half hours looking at scores of Van Goghs, Manets, Degas, Reniors and Toulouse-Lautrecs. A sign apologized for not having the dozen or so Monets on display. They have all been loaned to the Museum Grand Palais which is exhibiting history’s largest Monet display consisting of 177 of his works. We have reservations to see it at 2 p.m. Monday.
When we left d’Orsay we took off to the Right Bank where I left David in a cafe to work his crossword puzzles while I sought out more modern art at the Jeu de Paume. Spent about 90 minutes there.
We got back to the apartment around 5:15 and after a quick salad and soup we caught the bus for tonight’s highlight, the musical MAMMA MIA at the Mogador Theatre.
It was in French. I had seen it several times on Broadway and had no problem following the show with Abba’s lyrics in French, however, David (who speaks and understands very basic French) had never seen it. Since the majority of the musical is song and dance, he came out with a big smile even though our seats were nearly even with the height of The Eiffel Tower. The house was sold-out.
After a circuitous coupling of bus and metro we returned to Pont Neuf where we crossed The Seine on foot to arrive back at his apartment around 11:30.
It was a wonderful, exciting, exhilarating and tiring day.
Tomorrow’s plans are yet to be decided at the moment.
GO GATORS!!
Billi Pod
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
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