Museum Visit

Today we visited the Musée d'Orsay. It is a very popular museum, but we never got around to visiting it. Until now. My sister wrote about it in her blog. You can click here to read further.

It is a much bigger museum than I thought. If I knew, I wouldn't have worn high heeled boots =P Nonetheless, it was very interesting to see. The museum carries several very famous pieces by artist like Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir and Degas (just to name a few). But, unfortunately, they did not allow pictures to be taken inside the museum.....for the most part at least. Like my sister said, the museum is located in an old train station. This provided for some very interesting architecture as well as some beautiful views. I snuck a picture in of the view from the opening of a clock window.

One of the clock windows from one of the restaurants

View of Paris and the Sacre Coeur from the window

Also, the other day we celebrated our one year anniversary.....which happened to also be the chinese holiday of Mid Autumn Moon Festival. We didn't do anything special since we just got back from an extravagant honeymoon cruise. So we just went out to dinner. On our way to dinner we got a beautiful view of the sunset by the Eiffel tower.

And on our way back, we got to see the bright full moon over the Seine River. 

I'm a chipmuck!

So my wisdom teeth are all pulled out and now my cheeks are all poofy!

The surgery went ok, I guess. It was very confusing when you're not sure what to expect and on top of that you don't really understand what people are saying around you. The 5-10 minutes in the operation room before I knocked out was very scary.....just being in an operation room! Anyways....I went in around 7:15am to start all the administration stuff of the hospital and I got out around 1:30pm. I slept most of the day yesterday.

I feel a little better today, but still a little tired and my mouth feels funny, other than that I'm ok.

Other that in Cannes.....

Very pretty sunset over the mountains

Desserts at the local grocery store....and this was just part of it!

Day 7 (Kusadasi/Ephesus, Turkey)

From Istanbul over to Kusadasi it is 341 Nautical Miles.

We did not spend much time in Kusadasi itself. It functions as the port and gates into Ephesus. After ths ship docked in Kusadasi, our tour guide met us and we drove about 20 minutes before reaching the old city of Ephesus.

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, then later a Roman city before becoming a Turkish city. It was a major port for trade and fishing back in olden days. The sea use to reach the city walls, but over time, land built up and is now no longer near. It is also a biblical city. The people of the city are known as the Ephesians. It is also said that the House of Virgin Mary is in that city (we didn't visit it though). It is the house she moved into after the death of Christ until the day she died. Two thousand years ago, 250,000 people inhabited this city. This city was destroyed overtime by earthquakes

Old Ruins

They used that for their drainage system

In the smaller theatre

Old pillars

The front of the hospital or doctor's office?

Nike, the goddess of Victory

The front pillars of an old temple

Major puzzle!

Inside an old "condominium"

Check out the old frescos that still remain

The Library

Inside the bigger theatre

The Grand Theatre

Another cat picture

After walking around under the heat for several hours, it was very relaxing to go back on the ship, jump in the pool and watch the ship sail away. We were able to see some very pretty scenes on our way out too!

Pretty sunset

And for dinner.....well it was my birthday that day.....and Germain told the staff and I got a special little cake................and a birthday song =P

Crispy Beef Tartar

Onion Soup

Braised Osso Buco wrapped in Proscriutto with Spagetti Squash and Haricot Verts

Chocolate Mouse Cake with Candied Mandarins

My birthday cake ^_^

Another Week

So another week in Paris. But not too much going on.

I went to Opii this week.......as a foreigner in France with a visa I had to go to get an x ray of my lungs and see the doctor to make sure I'm not carrying any diseases and stuff. Germain was able to get the morning off for that......thank goodness because I would have been so lost! The doctor spoke English, but the people in front didn't.

Needless to say......French class......still struggling. Its just so different. After 25+ years of pronouncing words a certain way......it's not easy to just stop sounding them out the way you're use to!

Last night we went out for dinner. We had a groupon for a Japanese sushi dinner for cheap! It was good. not the BEST sushi I've ever had, but 22 euros for two people......soup and salad included......was pretty good. And yes......eating rice was very good.

(Don't worry mom and dad......we just bought a rice cooker! ^_^)

It was a nice day out so was walked around. We passed by the Paris Beaches......Yes beaches. In the middle of the country......Paris has Beaches......Wanna see??

The Paris Beach next to the Seine River

Lol......these are the beaches of Paris. They created this little elevated sandy area...they even imported palm trees to make it seem more beachy. Very funny......Maybe because I grew up in Miami =P

The sun was setting over the river......very pretty.......

Paris sunset

Then we made our way over to St Michel. I like that area. It's very touristy, but there's lots of little shops and restaurants. Several of them were roasting pigs!

Roast pork!

We had gelato for dessert. It was very good. But I guess it should be expected...France is next to Italy. I had chocolate nutella and strawberry gelato. Germain took vanilla and the seasonal special......cantaloupe.

yummy!

There are many neat shops in St. Michel. We passed by this HUGE used books store. HUGE. there were books for 20 cents! And most interesting of all......they had a HUGE section of mangas!! Too bad they're all in French......=P But just the day before......Germain bought me a manga from the bookstore for full price. He hopes it will help me learn French since I like mangas =P

Another cute store....

Bento boxes

They're all bento boxes! Even the legos one. Cute.

On our walk home we passed by a park. It actually seems very nice at night. Its all dark, but they installed lighting to light up sculptures and fountains.

This weekend is a long weekend! So three days to explore. No classes, no internship. Hopefully I'll have more pictures for you! ^_^

~Pui