Wednesday, 01 July 2009, 11:00 PM

Today was our first full day in Paris. We had a slow start since everyone was up late last night after our train trip from Bordeaux. Grandad walked to a local supermarket and bought eggs, bacon, cheese, bread, milk and other items.

We caught a taxi to Musée d'Orsay by just before 12. There is a taxi rank just down from us so it was easy (you can't just hail one in the street here apparently). The museum turned out to be really good. We all got the audio tour guides where you enter the number associated with the particular painting or sculpture to hear all about it. I that that was really fun. I also liked entering other numbers to hear stories about other random paintings.

We had lunch in the restaurant in the museum about 2pm or so. We had a nice view of outside. It was hot outside so it was good we were at the museum today. After lunch, Daddy and I went one way and Grandma and Grandad went another. Daddy and I checked out the Impressionists.

There were two paintings in particular that I liked. The first one was one of ballerinas on stage by Degas, "Répétition d'un ballet sur la scène". I liked this one because it is in an Olivia book I have at home. There were other Degas paintings and we looked at them too, but this one I like the best.

The other painting I like is the bedroom painting "La chambre de Van Gogh à Arles" by Van Gogh. I like this one because it has two of everything - two pillows. two painting on the wall, two doors, to water jugs. I like that.

Daddy also bought a few things from the gift shop, including a t-shirt for each of us and some other things. In the end, we stayed in the museum until closing time at 5:30pm!

We had a drink at a cafe near the museum, then caught a taxi back to our apartment. We then had a rest for a little while then walked to a nearby Sicilian restaurant for dinner. I had a cheese pizza but only ate a little bit of it (the rest we took home). There was a Hagen Daas icecream shop next door so we all had Un Boule (one scoop) each before going home.

I went to bed fairly soon after getting home.