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Rainy cold day means a museum day

On Day 3, we rescheduled some things because it was cold and rainy. Our initial plans included a trip to my MOST favorite museum on the planet....The d'Orsay! Loved it when I was there 20 years ago, but then again impressionism is my FAVORITE art period. We also planned to see the Orangerie and Monet's Water Lilies (he is my most fav artist). I did not see that when I was there years ago, so it was a must see for me.

The rest of the day we planned on exploring gardens and the Champs-Elysees. But, it was TOO cold to walk around. So we shuffled and did the two above museums and the Louvre! We did take some time when it wasn't raining to explore the Tuileries Gardens in between the museums and have an outdoor, cafe lunch as well as shop around the museum areas. It was super fun. We also people watched in the Place de la Concorde, this is where a lot of the important figures were guillotined during the revolution.  There were a lot of brides getting their pictures taken there and it was fun to observe.

I was in heaven to see the Water Lilies and McKenzie did her best to support my enthusiasm. She was awesome. Kenzie had fun taking a selfie in front for the Mona Lisa. We did a quick loop through the Louvre, because we didn't want to be museumed out, but we planned to go back another day.

We did most of our shopping this day. At one store, some 21 year old was all over Kenzie asking if he could have her. He gave her a key chain from the store and kept telling her how beautiful she was. I thought she was going to die. The guy would not let up.


On the way to the Orsay. I was so excited. Great view. I love how the museum, behind Kens, sits on the river bank.


The Water Lilies were awesome! The Paris Museum Pass was cool to have. We walked right past the lines.


Me at the d'Orsay. It was so great to see all those great Impressionistic painters, as well as the others, but the Impressionistic collection is awesome here. 


The Louvre! It is a Paris must, but really not my favorite. But, you do have to do it.

I just had to get a picture of her taking a selfie with Mona Lisa! That was the highlight for me. She was so excited. 

I loved the Tuileries Garden. It is awesome to stand in the middle and see the Louvre on one side, the d'Orsay on another, the Orangerie at another angle and the Place de la Concorde on the other side. It was amazing for us to see so much history while standing in one spot!


When it wasn't raining, we spent a lot of time sitting in the green chairs around the ponds watching people. That was so fun. Of course, we ate a Nutella crepe.








The Kiss....had to for Jay.


Lunch at a cafe in the garden. It was so beautiful.


Lunch. I had quiche. Kens had a crepe.



 The Place de Concorde. Before we left we watched tons of movies set in Paris.....Kens didn't know why I was making her watch them since we didn't tell her until days before we left. But it made the trip really cool. She recognized this spot from some of the movies we had watched.




It was fun to find a statue of Thomas Jefferson in our explorations!

Paris awesomeness.


We loved the "square" cut trees everywhere.

This was a cool park and shopping area we found behind the Louvre. We thought it was funny the places people can sit and walk and play in parks are sand and dirt and the do not sit places are grass.

We could never figure out the point of this park, but people looked like they were having fun. 

Here is the weird stalker guy. You can see now nervous Kenzie is. It was pretty funny though and she got a free key chain out of it. 





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