Adventures with Meme: The Louvre

Pierre is in Budapest teaching the world about Tax Policy.  Meme is helping me hold down the fort and I am glad.  There are not many people who would fly across the Atlantic to help me out.  I am grateful for the company and Sylvia is finally getting all of the attention she needs.  Meme is showering praise on the girls, which means a lot more than anything I can dish out.  Thanks, Meme!  We miss you, Pepe!

Pierre flew away on Father's Day and the ladies headed to the Louvre.  Lillian took this shot of me and Meme in front of a Roman? urn.  Lillian likes the Roman and Greek Antiquities section and Sylvia prefers the Egyptian section.

These sketchers were very busy.  Lillian copied down lots of hieroglyphics and Sylvia sketched many animals.

The Venus de Milo sketches will make great souvenirs.  The girls had to keep moving so that they weren't trampled by eager photographers.




  I took this photo of Egyptian cows to e-mail to my Dad for Father's Day.  He is a Wisconsin farm boy and an Economic cow expert.  No joke.

After all that sketching and small motor skills work, we headed to the play structure in the Tuileries to work on our gross motor skills.

Although a lot of this play area is "for babies" the multi-kid seesaw is lots of fun.  There are lots of opportunities for injury, which always raises the fun quotient.



The gardeners are working overtime and the Tuileries are beautiful.  It was a sunny day and the place was wall to wall people (This photo looks empty because no one is allowed to walk on the grass.)  Across the Tuileries and the Seine you can see Musee D'Orsay.

This afternoon Meme and I headed to Musee Marmottan.  We can walk to the museum from our house and fit in a visit between lunch drop off and after school pick up.  There is a special show on Berthe Morisot, a female impressionist who lived in our current neighborhood, at the Marmottan right now.  The museum is housed in an incredible mansion.  It has lots of different collections, including Claude Monet's collection of art that his son gave to the museum when he died. 

Pierre is away until Friday and Meme and I plan to have many more adventures before his return.  He has no cell phone and a bad Internet connection (so he says).  He borrowed a cell phone and called me from a restaurant this evening.  I could hear what Pierre told me was "Hungarian folk dancing"" in the background.  Very suspicious.