Day Two Paris

Our morning started with some yoga for jet lag but ended up in laughter and pandemonium. Four women in Paris can have quite a good time even before they step outside. With the rain and wind we decided it was a good museum day and Musee d'Orsay is just around the corner. The building was once a train station with a beautiful glass roof, a large Baroque style clock that reminds you of Grand Central and a large ballroom with exquisite gawdy chandeliers and wallpaper. At one time it also was a hotel with 570 rooms for the world's fair. Seeing Starry Night or La classe de danse or my favourite bal du moulin de la galette was certainly worth the admission but I discovered I love art nouveau which reminds me of pixels. A special exhibition entitled l'ange du bizarre (the angel of the odd) which is dark romanticism of death, hell, lucifer as interpreted from Faust, Shakespeare, the Bible and Dante. After the impressionists, these pictures were dark and foreboding and we ended up feeling very claustrophobic. The fascination with evil wasn't ours. We ate a delicious tartine which is like a gourmet grilled cheese and then window shopped the rest of the rainy day. We found a delicious patisserie with lemon curd and a chocolate mousse that deserves a second or third or fourth visit. We stopped for dinner ingredients at the monoprix and then climbed up the four flights of stairs to home. Costco would not work here. Cooking on this little gas stove took some engineering. Tomorrow we are headed to L'orangerie, Angelina's for chocolat chaud et jacquesmart Andre museum.