France: Day 6

What I Wore 

 I thought it was a cute outfit so I wanted to document it. :)

This is the Fontaine des Innocents, the oldest fountain in Paris.  We began our day here to meet Jacob's friends for lunch.

Anne-Sophie and Sandrine are so sweet.  Jacob knew them on his mission and we saw Sandrine in church when we went to Torcy.  We met up with them and ate lunch and talked and laughed.  Luckily, Sandrine speaks English really well and Anne-So does a little, so I could talk to them.  They are awesome!  It was fun getting together with them.  

Next, we headed to Centre Georges Pompidou, a modern art museum.  It was interesting.

At least it had a cool escalator with a view of the city.

View from the top

Most of the art was really weird and not our style, but this interactive piece was neat.  We were allowed to walk through one person at a time.  

We finished pretty quickly at the museum.  It was a reminder that modern art is just not our thing.  (Huge canvases painted all white or all black, or random messy colors that a child could paint.  Blah.  I just don't get it.  Art is so subjective, isn't it?)

We found the LDS Institute building where Jacob spent a lot of time as a missionary.  

Inner court of the Institute

cobblestone by the institute bldg

I saw a little piece of home on our walk. :)

We also visited the Jardin de Luxembourg.  It's beautiful!

loved seeing my favorite flower in abundance

Even in France, they have one of Jacob's favorite treats...

Barbapapa means grandpa's beard. :)  I thought it was a clever name.  Look at that thing.  It was huge!  My treat was the chocolat chaud that Jacob's holding.  It was pretty chilly that day and the hot chocolate helped warm me up a little.

We sat for a while and had fun people watching.

Brightly colored doors like these are everywhere in the city.

This is really how close some people park there.  They take using your bumper literally.

Some macarons we tried.  

Most were good, but a few were not very tasty, especially that green one. Ick!  But aren't they so pretty to look at?

That night we ate in the Latin Quarter again and tried a traditional French dish, raclette.  You melt the cheese on a grill over a little burner, then slide it off onto your food.  We ate the cheese on baked potatoes, bread, and meat.  It was delicious!  Oh, also, at the restaurant we saw a middle-aged couple sitting near us and the man was wearing a jacket that said BYU-Idaho on it.  So we went over to find out where they were from.  The man is a geology professor at BYU-I and he and his wife were on a work trip there.  They were super nice and friendly and it was fun to meet fellow Idahoans. :)

Watching my crepe get made

Nutella and banana (again)

Excited to chow down!

Latin Quarter

Late that night, we walked from our hotel to the Tour Montparnasse.  We've heard it described as an eyesore in the city because it's the only modern skyscraper in the area.  But it has an amazing view of the city, so we wanted to go up in it.

View from the top

Sorry, not the best pic cause of the flash.  

It was fun to be up there but a little scary too because it was cold and raining a little and I was worried about lightning.  We made it back to our hotel around 11:30 and went straight to bed after a long day.