Monday 4th June

An early start - breakfast and then we set off to look for new shoes for Sam (good ones to walk in as the ones we bought in Sydney were not that great for walking/ support after all!)

We could not find a shoe shop that was open and thus we headed off to the Musee L'Orangerie in the rain!! ewww! we got there and it was not open for indivduals until 9.30 am (Sam had misread the pamphlet)! we then went off walking to try to find Printemps (a large department store) and some shoes!! We almost bought an umbrella from a guy trying to flog them t tourists but did not...

We went walking and arranged via SMS to meet up with Nat at 3pm at Notre Dame.. Guy phoned his Dad and found out from Marie-France where the large department stores were.. on our way there we found a sports store and bought some boots! (although after a large amount of walking today my feet are still sore and blistered).

We then kept on and were thinking about lunch when we saw the Opera House where the Phantom of the Opera was set!!!!

...C'est Ici!!





We had a walk around and took some photos and ...



We ate our lunch in a bistro overlooking the opera house!! Sam had Fois gras (on a sandwich) and Guy had a toasted sandwish with an egg on top!!! We will do a special post later of all the meals we have eaten (or taken photos of - which is almost all)!!

We then went back to Musee L'Orangerie, which Monet designed for his pictures... and yes it was worth going to!! Here are a few photos... the paintings are huge and take up about a quarter of a large round room!! There were 2 rooms for the waterlilly paintings!! It was pretty busy and there was a class of primary students there - they had to sketch the lillies - difficult task!! We then went downstairs to where some other Impressionest Paintings were!!






(the Lillies up close!!)

Here I am with one of my favourite paintings - by Renoir!!!