Teotihuacan at Quai Branly

Today I went to see Teotihuacan at the Musée du Quai Branly (here's a link in English).  It was my first time visiting this art museum (focused on the far flung regions of the world) so I also went through part of the main collections (sticking with Americas since I'd already spent 2 hours on that). 

It was enjoyable - a part of history I don't know at all, so I learned a good deal.  I'm always astonished though, when I look at the development of the populations in the Americas at how far behind on most technology they were for so long (writing, sciences, etc).  The art too seems so primitive, even if some of it is lovely.

Walking around the Latin Quarter

We had a lovely day today - first really nice weekend of the Spring, full of sunshine.

We walked around a bunch of lovely places - rue Mouffetard, the Pantheon, La Sorbonne, the Jardin des Plantes, and a bunch of shops that make up the outdoor-and-sports stores of Le Vieux Camper.

It was a lovely way to spend the afternoon and evening - and makes me fall in love with Paris all over again (and maybe a little bit more in love with my husband too!)

Paris : St Germain, Place Vendome, autour de Madeleine

My DH and I spent the day together exploring Paris- it was wonderful. We started with brunch at the Cafe de Flore in the very-calm upstairs dining room (which has beautiful flowers all around the windows). We'd stopped in a bookstore on our way over and we read and sipped tea and ate for over an hour.

We then headed to Charvet at the Place Vendome and before going in for my DH's late x-mas gift we spent a bit of time window-shopping at the very high-end jewelery boutiques clustered there. The main thing we saw was the complete lack of correlation between cost and elegance...

After Charvet I expected my DH to go to his office for a while, but as we passed Habitat I told him I'd get out there so I could look in the store and to my surprise he suggested we park and go together. So we went shopping in the Madeleine area for a few hours, had a drink at Bertie, and ended with Fauchon.

Afterwards we went to see the expo Eros from the Enfer collection at the Bibliotheque Nationale site Mitterand, but the line was too long so we saw Heros instead. Then went to check out movies, but other than Juno the timing wasn't good and my DH didn't want to see Juno so he proposed I stay and see it and he go home. Which made everyone happy.

A quiet dinner at home and then a classic DVD to end our impromptu day together - it was really nice.

Walk around Paris : Pere Lachaise Cemetery

My friend Peter came to Paris for work and had some free time on Sunday so I met up with him and spent several hours wandering around Pere Lachaise Cemetery with him. He had a guide book that had listed about 30 graves of the famous to see, and we basically were able to catch up and talk for a few hours while wandering around looking for them and Peter taking pictures.

It was a nice way to spend the afternoon, especially as the weather was beautiful. This cemetery is very famous and I had only visited it once, back when I was 16 and visited Paris briefly, so it was nice to see it now that I live here.