Rodin, Notre Dame and Louvre

Dave and I let a british lady take our picture in front of The Gates of Hell.... Unfortunately she cut out the top, and its a bit crooked.
Notre Dame
Notre Dame from the side
Rodin's "Cathedral" This is my favorite piece that we saw today.
Dave doing some thinking with "The Thinker"

Today was a really great day. Well, it started off not great and then got really good.

I woke up this morning and had a quick bite to eat in the house before setting off to the train station that is 5 minutes from the house. Unfortunately I made a wrong turn pretty much as soon as I walked out the door and I ended up taking 30 minutes to get there. I also asked probably 6 different people where I was going. Luckily, I managed to make it on the train and then the metro and then to the Musee D'Orsay only 5 minutes later than planned.

Dave had only been waiting a few minutes so everything worked out well. We decided to start our day at the Musee Rodin, instead of the Musee D'Orsay, because the line was looking pretty big and we were really up to do anything. The Musee Rodin was really amazing, tons of Auguste Rodin's sculpture, including the famous ones "The Thinker" and "The Gates of Hell." It was a really nice day and a lot of the sculptures were outside in the garden but there was a big party being set up so unfortunately we didn't have access to everything. We left the Museum about 11:30 and headed toward the hotel where Dave was staying because he had left his brother to sleep for the morning and we went to pick him up before we continued on.

We walked back to the Musee D'Orsay but figured since it was such a nice day, we would try to stay outside instead of spending the day in the museum. We walked down to where the boats are on the Seine and got on a boat called a Batobus. Basically, this boat does a continuous trip around the main attractions of Paris and you are welcome to get on and off as you please throughout the day. It was a good way to get around, as well as check out some of the views from the Seine.

We stayed on the boat until Notre Dame and Ile de la Cite where we got off and walked around the cathedral and took a few photos. We then went to a nice little cafe and had a gelato. I got fig flavored and the guys both got raspberry. They were delicious!

After we finished our gelato, we got back on the Batobus and continued on to the Louvre. We didn't go inside the museum, we just sat down in the amazing gardens and rested our legs for a bit. After the lawn mower threatened to run us over, we got up and moved on. We walked for a long time into St Germain Des Pres and found a Laduree tea shop where obviously, we had to go in and buy macarons!! I got a Pain D'epices (gingerbread) and a caramel a la fleur de sel and they were both amazing!

After all of this fun, it was getting close to time for me to head home so I hopped on the closest metro and luckily found my way home without a problem! I made it back to La Garenne just in time to pick up Philippine from school.

The day was really successful and I enjoyed my first taste of Paris, sans jetlag! I am really itching to get to the Musee D'Orsay now though so I hope I can do that in the next few weeks.

Anyways, I am a bit tired now and my feet are pretty sore. I am going to head to bed,

Love you all, xoxo M