Lovely mini-park up from the des Tuileries and the Louvre where we had a picnic lunch, and which was surprisingly tourist-free.We slept in a bit on Tuesday, 7/27, and then enjoyed a nice (free!) breakfast of fresh juice, pain au chocolat, croissants, and ham and cheese baguettes at the hotel. And after we took a leisurely walk to the Musee d'Orsay, a museum built in a converted train station that I had always wanted to go to in Paris, but had never gone before. It has a huge Impressionist collection with tons of Monet's, Renoir's, Pissaro's, and whole room of Van Gogh's. I loved it, although maybe didn't spend quite as much time as I would have liked because we left so that Jared could have a phone interview. We walked back to the hotel to pick up our picnic food from the previous night, and then headed to the lovely park above, where I enjoyed more cheese, bread, ham, and rillettes for lunch, while Jared had his phone call.
View to the Louvre and its iconic glass pyramid (designed by I.M. Pei, who also designed the Islamic Art Museum in Doha that we visited in April. It seems I am making my rounds to his masterpieces this year) from the park where we had our lunch.Then after lunch we decided to continue exploring the city by walking and headed up to Boulevard Haussmann to the Galleries Lafayette where my Aunt had told me we could get a great (free!) view of the city from the 7th floor observation deck. So we walked into the store which was bustling with tourists and promptly headed to the escalators and kept going up and up, and noticed that the higher we went in the store, the less tourists there were. By the time we reached the top, it was basically empty, but the views were breathtaking...
Jared on the Galleries Lafayette roof.
Self-take from the Galleries Lafayette.
Spices and seasoned salts in the Gourmet Food Hall.Then after we had taken in the views from the roof, we explored the store a bit, and as can be expected, found the Gourmet Food Hall the most interesting...
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