Day 59 - Paris

We got up midmorning and tried to figure out what to do for the day. Everything seems to be closed in Paris on Mondays so our options were limited. We wanted to go to Versailles, but again, closed, so we decided we´d do that tomorrow and spedn the day walking around Paris, exploring some new areas.

We finally got our asses out of the hostel by noonish, hit a couple bakeries and a coffeeshop, then headed toward the Seine. We headed up past the Notre-Dame Cathedral adn then north to the Picasso Museum. We´d heard from someone in Normandy that it was pretty good, so we paid and spent a little over an hour checking out the museum.

The whole thing was filled with nothing but Pablo´s work, most of which were his sketches and doodles of his famous complete works. It was pretty interesting to see how his sketches evolved from one to next, and then finally into a final product. But wow....was he ever one messed up dude. Definately a gear or two not turning somewhere, but obviously people love it, or there wouldn´t be a museum dedicated to just his work.

Aftewards we did some shopping on le Champs-Elysees and walked around the Arc de Triomphe, then back south across the Seine, under the Eiffel Tower (we´ve been under it so many times that the novelty has pretty much worn off...its just the way to go now), then back to our hostel, grabbing some snacks and Chineese food (from the same place as always) along the way.

We were both exhausted after walking for 7 hours straight, so we just spent the rest of the night in the hostel relaxing and watching movies again.