So the rest of the weekend was nice and quiet! On Saturday Megan and I slept in because we were exhausted, and decided to go walking around Le Marais and do some more of that walking tour I started last week. We got up to the Musee Carnavalet. On the way we saw an Art Nouveau synagogue, along with some other old private mansions and stuff. The Musee Carnavalet is a free museum about the history of Paris. It was actually not that interesting or informative, but it was really pretty! We also found this American grocery store called Thanksgiving! It's run by Americans who live in France, and they import stuff like Kraft macaroni and cheese, Lucky Charms, Tostitos salsa, Philadelphia cream cheese, and other American goods that you just can't find in Paris grocery stores. They're almost all prohibitively expensive, but we did get a good deal on one thing! They have FROZEN BAGELS IMPORTED FROM NEW YORK!! 5 euros for 4 of them! This wasn't a bad price at all, so we bought them and they are delicious and make me very happy. We decided not to go out for Nuit Blanche (everything in Paris stays open really late and there are cultural presentations and stuff) and stayed in to watch Moulin Rouge instead.
Sunday we did homework and walked around the rue de Rivoli near the Louvre a little bit.
Today after class Megan and I went to the Centre Pompidou, the museum of modern art in Paris. I don't really like modern art, but the building is designed to look inside out, so it's really cool. We saw some Picasso and stuff like that, and then some really weird stuff. Modern art is really strange. But that's another museum to cross off the list!
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