I'm glad Ariel and I decided to do it when the weather was so nice. The beginning was a little confusing. It was really cool to see Drayfus's statue. i had been wondering where it was. It really is tucked away from where the normal tourist would go and i did notice that the locals were watching us as we took pictures of him.
Ariel and i were tempted by the Amorino so we enjoyed a good little bit of that in the parc. we just sat there and watched people going about their normal business. Olivier gave us a check list so we had fun trying to find all the things on it. we found the Beehives, the mini statue of Liberty, children riding donkeys, park security men, quite a few couples kissing on benches, people jogging, chess players and then the old men playing Petanque. Ariel and i went over to watch them playing but one of the old men kept looking at us and we both were thinking we weren't supposed to be there or take pictures. I finally heard one of them men saying something along the lines of how we are really pretty to another old man and then one who was playing the game told us to take a picture of him dancing. All the old men were staring so we felt a little uncomfortable and went ahead and left.
Ariel and I had a brain fart moment. we walked past what we thought was the Orangerie and saw a ton of trees in it and figured it was closed to the public and so we skipped it. We'll have to make a visit some later time.
Ariel and I went back to the Orangerie later. It was pretty fun. I think i like Monet alright. the guy checking everyone's bags said that mine was beautiful so that was flattering. anyhow, the stuff downstairs didn't really do much for me, but i saw a painting of a part of Montmartre that i had walked through earlier that day so that was really cool.
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