We packed bread with brie and salami, filled the water bottle, and went to the Louvre. We ended up being satisfied with a shorter visit (4 hours). It was so huge and there was so much to see!
We got to see the Mona Lisa and some wonderful Greek statues, but my favorite exhibit was the artifacts from Mesopotamia. One of the pillar tops from Darius' palace was there. It was enormous and the gravity of how much wonderful ancient architecture we have lost weighed very strongly on me. I would give so much to walk through the palaces and gardens of Babylon and Persia. Just seeing the meagre remnants made me teary-eyed. In its completeness, I would I have been flooded! Really, I have never seen anything that could have been as grand. Even the jewelry on the busts of women looks like it was incredible.
Let's hope we never lose the Louvre, as the libraries of Alexandria.
After dinner, we walked along the Seine with ice cream, (the most delicious and expensive I've ever had), until we reached Notre Dame. The cathedral was beautiful.
Nearby, we listened to a lady singing opera on a bridge. I got emotional again (was a trend today). To make it worse, a little boy gave the opera singer a pretty leaf he found on the ground. She accepted it so graciously, and it was just such a precious moment.
We sat by the river and just took in the sights. The weather was so nice and the atmosphere so pleasant! We are in France!
And everything is perfect.
To conclude our evening (after a bizarre adventure trying to figure out the public toilets), we bought a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes and sat on the stone edge on the Seine. We laughed and talked about our boyfriends: a conversation which got sillier as the bottle got emptier.
Eventually we got back to the apartment after asking a few people for directions, because our abilities to navigate the city of Paris got a bit muddied.
That being said, I strongly suggest sharing a boutteille de vin avec votre bon amie en le Seine.
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