Le troisieme jour a Paris!

Today we visited Le Louvre and then Les Jardins des Tuilleries. I didn't come in with a set agenda (except seeing some beautiful paintings and artifacts). We saw the Mona Lisa first, which was very cool, but of course there was a huge crowd already surrounding her. Most people were trying to take pictures which made no sense to me because there are so many better pictures already taken... After that we split up and I wandered the museum, visiting all three sections and all 4 floors (but not the whole museum of course), it's so big!

(I can't figure out how to rotate these :'( )

We met up and went to lunch at a little cafe where I had to order in French. We got quiche and then delicious desserts. I had un gateau au chocolate avec marmalade de fraises (chocolate cake with strawberry marmalade).

We split up and Reed and I visited the Tuileries while mom went to some churches. The gardens were beautiful. We arranged to meet at one end of the gardens and somehow missed each other. Mom left 10 minutes after we were supposed to meet (assuming that we had gone home by mistake) and Reed and I waited for her for an hour and fifteen minutes before turning home where we found her. It makes me wish we had european cell phones.

We came back to a beautiful dinner laid out by our host mom. All in all c'etait un bon jour.

Laurel