The next morning we woke up and went to the Musée d’Orsay. We got there by 11am or something like that and the kids were pretty hungry after a couple of hours in there. The girls had a good exposure to the impressionists, Monet’s haystacks and the Cathedral of Rouen which he painted over and over again in different lighting at different times of day. McKenzey especially liked a very large Water Lillies painting by Monet. We also saw a couple of Monet’s that are very famous : Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia. We also say some nice Van Gogh’s that McKenzey liked, Starry Night (not the more famous one that is in NY, but this one and a great selfportrait : We also saw some of Gauguin paintings but I don’t think that they would remember them because they were totally worn out and famished. Oh, also at the Musée d’Orsay, we saw Whistler’s Mother.


Hope you remembered and reminded the kids that they are descended from Charlemagne! Makes history more interesting when you can make a connection to it! I’ll get out the genealogy charts and software when I see you next (G).