A COUPLE OF FULL DAYS

So, we have been in Paris for 2 full days now.

Yesterday, we primarily attended the exhibit on Pompeii at the Maillot Museum in St. Germain des Pres. It was a fabulous show, where they even had entire rooms that had been excavated from the ashes re-created in the museum (including the walls! How do they do that?).

Today was a bit of a false start for us... I slept right through the alarm clock and didn't even get out of bed until about 8am (which is quite late for us). After sorting ourselves out, we headed out to the Jacquemart-Andre museum to see the exhibit on Fra Angelico.... but when we got there, the line up was so ridiculously long that we decided to give it a skip because we have better things to do in Paris than stand in line. So, off we headed to the Marais for our favourite felafel sandwich (see last year's post), only to find that it was closed (because Friday is sabbath eve?), so we haded over to the Ile St Louis and had our favourite chocolate banana crepe washed down with a glass of sparkling cider.

We spent the afternoon wholesale shopping for Pariscope, then came home and bought the ingredients for tonight's supper. I made a broccoli, mushroom and comté cheese quiche. It's amazing how Parisian you feel when you buy the ingredients and make your own supper (the joy of having an apartment) instead of always spending your time deciding which restaurant you want to eat at. For dessert we had a strawberry tart and millefeuille.

After watching the last installment of this week's Diner Presque Parfait (the almost perfect dinner - the French version of Come Dine with me Canada), we headed out for an evening stroll to take some exercise, but more importantly, look up into the apartments that have thier lights on and check the decor and especially the moldings, medallions and lighting that each has. We're in the 16th, so we're over-laden with Embassies and Ambassador's residences (Canada's embassy is not here - it's over on the Rue Montaingne - across the road from Chanel's main Paris location), so there are LOTS of things to see. There's a big soiree at the Angolian Embassy, just up the street tonight.

We had an amazing day weather wise, about 65 degrees and clear blue sunny skies!