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Musee D’Orsay and round 2 on the Metro is much worse
Happy Independence Day!
We got an Uber to Musee D’Orsay after breakfast. We did not have lunch. The impressionist trick works on many but not all of the paintings in 5, including Seurat (altho we didn’t make it to Gauguin). A. kinda blew up after about 40 minutes. She liked the sculpture, but there were too many people in the impressionist rooms. Oh well!
We went to Angiolo, but on the way there we stopped at Damonte & Lacarrieu a “concept store”, but whatever, R. like a lamp in the window so we went in and bought it for a lot of money and ultimately paid almost half that again to ship it to us at home. We’ll see if it shows up, and if I later find it for 20% or less the price online somewhere.
Angiolo for ice cream was amazing and had a bunch of vegan options. Really, really great.
Our efforts to reload our Navigo cards and get one for A. went cartoonishly awry, partly because we’re idiots but mostly because we kept getting distracted by a scam artist who was pretending to be helpful. At one point, he grabbed my money, but I grabbed it right back, so shades of that night in De Wallen I guess. He did snag some of the change from successfully reloading the card, but I think he got maybe 6E out of the deal and when he saw I was headed over to the person to complain he cleared out finally. In all the chaos, I’d accidentally loaded another trip onto a card that had one, and then I finally just used coins in the machine helpful guy said didn’t take coins, and it worked just fine. Then the train was crazy crowded and A. freaked out. Why we didn’t just Uber I will never know, but I’m pretty sure R. has learned from this.
We got home, and I made A. a cheese sandwich (so the cheese is now gone). Then we went to Fugue for dinner which was fantastic. Nikka Coffey Grain whisky is wonderful, and the Eau de Vie from prunes is also really yummy.
I cooked the chicken nuggets for A. and did the whole box (it was small) and she wound up eating all of it. Which is fine! And she’s eaten almost all of the carrots and lettuce and had some grapes and an apple. The apple juice was a little too tart. Win some lose some.
In the end, it was breakfast, ice cream and dinner for R. and me (no lunch today), which worked out well.
I did some laundry, but only mine, not anyone else’s. R. says he has clothes to get until he’s home. We made a bunch of reservations for the England days, and mostly planned tomorrow’s travels.
We got an Uber to Musee D’Orsay after breakfast. We did not have lunch. The impressionist trick works on many but not all of the paintings in 5, including Seurat (altho we didn’t make it to Gauguin). A. kinda blew up after about 40 minutes. She liked the sculpture, but there were too many people in the impressionist rooms. Oh well!
We went to Angiolo, but on the way there we stopped at Damonte & Lacarrieu a “concept store”, but whatever, R. like a lamp in the window so we went in and bought it for a lot of money and ultimately paid almost half that again to ship it to us at home. We’ll see if it shows up, and if I later find it for 20% or less the price online somewhere.
Angiolo for ice cream was amazing and had a bunch of vegan options. Really, really great.
Our efforts to reload our Navigo cards and get one for A. went cartoonishly awry, partly because we’re idiots but mostly because we kept getting distracted by a scam artist who was pretending to be helpful. At one point, he grabbed my money, but I grabbed it right back, so shades of that night in De Wallen I guess. He did snag some of the change from successfully reloading the card, but I think he got maybe 6E out of the deal and when he saw I was headed over to the person to complain he cleared out finally. In all the chaos, I’d accidentally loaded another trip onto a card that had one, and then I finally just used coins in the machine helpful guy said didn’t take coins, and it worked just fine. Then the train was crazy crowded and A. freaked out. Why we didn’t just Uber I will never know, but I’m pretty sure R. has learned from this.
We got home, and I made A. a cheese sandwich (so the cheese is now gone). Then we went to Fugue for dinner which was fantastic. Nikka Coffey Grain whisky is wonderful, and the Eau de Vie from prunes is also really yummy.
I cooked the chicken nuggets for A. and did the whole box (it was small) and she wound up eating all of it. Which is fine! And she’s eaten almost all of the carrots and lettuce and had some grapes and an apple. The apple juice was a little too tart. Win some lose some.
In the end, it was breakfast, ice cream and dinner for R. and me (no lunch today), which worked out well.
I did some laundry, but only mine, not anyone else’s. R. says he has clothes to get until he’s home. We made a bunch of reservations for the England days, and mostly planned tomorrow’s travels.