Chloe endured the wait by chasing bubbles. An entrepreneur in the plaza was blowing massive bubbles for the kids and collecting nice tips from grateful parents.
This is a modern art museum. The architecture is very modern/unusual and the art is pretty forward and avant-garde. We hit the two main floors. Amazingly they allowed photography in the building. Many of the artists weren’t known to us but Mary did see a number that she knew, including Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and Mondrian.
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| A Painting by Matisse |
After finishing one floor we headed to the restaurant on the top floor for lunch…fantastic views of the city. Lunch was fantastically expensive.
We finished the second of the two floors we visited and then headed out to the nearby Ile de la Cite where we got into another line to see Sainte Chapelle. This is a 13th century chapel that has absolutely spectacular stain glass everywhere. Well worth the time in line. Chloe decided that when she got home she wanted to redo her room to look like Sainte Chapelle.
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Then it was more wandering to try to find a monument to the Bastille...
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| Column at the Place de la Bastille |
and then the pastel painted houses of Rue Crémieux. The Rue Crémieux was billed as the most colorful street in Paris. It is a block of pastel painted houses with lots of large potted plants on the sidewalks. Admittedly it was one of the more colorful streets in Paris as most buildings in Paris are natural stone. However, it was a lot of walking for limited sightseeing return.
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| Colorful Houses on the Rue Crémieux |
Then we struggled through trying to find our way back to the hotel via the Metro…then dinner at a local restaurant.
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