Artful Stew

Real French macarons have landed in NYC! Beloved French tea salon Laduree has finally (finally!) opened a store in New York, at 864 Ma...

AS's parents got into town this morning and, though severely jetlagged, were nice enough to walk around with us and treat us to lunch an...

COINCIDENTALLY, the dancing poodles shop is only a few doors down from our good ice cream place, Berthillon, so we figured we might as well ...

After our museum trip, we decided to walk back over to the store with the dancing poodles so AS could get another souvenir. We walked by Not...

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....

Here's one more cool ceiling photo. I think it's safe to say we barely saw any of the Louvre even though we were walking in it for h...

We spent most of our time in the Egyptian section of the museum. Half because we're both interested in ancient Egypt and a slightly larg...

Here's a nice view of the courtyard from inside the museum. It was windy out today, and you can see the wind blowing the water in the fo...

We had to shove a lot of children and elderly, but we got close enough to take a few pictures of the Mona Lisa. Her eyes do follow you, but ...

Today we had lunch with one of AS's old friends from summer camp who lives in the same apartment building a few floors up. She and her r...

These massive doors are pretty cool. They've got tiny versions of all of Rodin's sculptures on them. AS found out that they're s...

Here is what I assume is a self-sculpture of Rodin. You can tell by the next photo how close the Rodin Museum is to the Hotel des Invalides....

Later in the afternoon we walked over to the Rodin Museum to take in some sculptures. There's a museum section indoors and a garden sect...

As promised, here are another whale shot, an overhead view from the second floor. The skeleton of the Right Whale had all it's baleen in...

The first floor of the paleontology museum is wall to wall skeletons. This area seemed less about teaching you things and more about "H...

Two cool statue pics attached here. The first one is in the garden next to where a field trip of little kids were eating lunch. It's a b...