This morning after a standard breakfast in the apartment of cheese and jam with a baguette, we lounged for a bit until heading out to lunch. We've proudly been to most of the places we wanted to visit so today was kind of a bonus day. We had a delicious lunch at a bistro near the Seine. AS had her standard roast chicken that came with green beans and I had a salmon fillet with mac and cheese. Both were delicious. Our waiter was an American ex-pat from Austin who was very excited to speak English to us even though we ordered in French.
After lunch we walked over to the Musee d'Orsay which houses lots of impressionist and post-impressionist painting and sculpture. The building itself is an old train station. You can see how cool it looks in the first photo. Also, note at the bottom of that photo the no cameras sign. Apparently all photography is prohibited in this museum so I was lucky to sneak that shot. Afterward, we were able to grab two exterior shots of the building though.
We saw a lot of Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Degas. They were all pretty cool, especially some of the Van Gogh's that I recognized. My favorite painting was "La Chat Blanc" by Pierre Bonnard. Since The Man wouldn't let me take a picture, here's a link to it on The Man's website.
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