We went to two museums today on our open museum class day. We started at the D'orsay a museum that is little known but with alot behind it. The building is an old refurbished train station and the results are pretty neat. There were works by many well knoen artists like Cezanne, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh and many others. I even saw Whistler's mom. We stayed there until noon, ate lunch, then headed to the Louvre. We saw all the main things in the Louvre including Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa. They were as you would expect them to be, better than the print and larger than life. After about 8 hours of museuming we decided to leave. When we came up from the lower floors of the Louvre we found the sky opened up in a brownish grey. There were rain drops the size of golf balls falling from the sky and there was lightning flashing simultaneously with the thunder. We held up under the outdoor awning until the green light, then sprinted through the rain to the other side of the street. There we stood under a covered walk. We thought of our options of finding indoors eating areas. At the end of the walk was our savior, an old friend in fact. Good old Ronald McDonald and his golden arches flashed at us through the dreary rain. We ate there, sat there for an hour and a half journalling and waiting for the rain to ebb. It was good.
Tomorrow we are going to Monet's garden in Giverny, lets hope the rain holds out.
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