Cuisine!

Today above all days so far was our food day. Not a health food day by far, but amaaaaaaazing food :D We started off the day with a very late breakfast of crepes. We didn't have lunch because of our late breakfast, and also because we had dinner reservations, so we had an ice cream around 3. Then came dinner. We ate at La Coupole, which my mom had told us about because she ate there when she was in Paris ages ago. Such a good recommendation! Some of the best food I've had like, ever. Grandma was in heaven because it had air conditioning :) We started off the meal with an aperatif of kir royale, which is black currant juice and champagne. Then Grandma convinced me to try oysters and I'm so glad I did because I found out that I love them! Yummy yummy yummy. Then I had salmon for dinner, which was cooked to perfection of course. And for dessert I had a molten chocolate cake and Grandma had a Cointreau :D By far our least healthy day yet, but definitely the most delicious. And I found us a cab home which made Grandma even happier! I think she's about had it with the Metro haha.

So onto today's activities! Apparently my camera was a little annoyed at being forgotten yesterday, so it decided to exact revenge and die on me today!!!! So I didn't get any pictures :( Which is really really a shame because I would've loved to get pictures today. We went to the Musee National du Moyen Age, which we decided was actually our favorite museum so far. It wasnt crowded or hot or too big, it was perfect! Everything was displayed very well and the audioguides were great, aside from being a bit confused as to which room we were actually in haha. My favorite part was the Roman baths. The site of the museum just happened to be on top of the ancient Roman baths, so they're included in the museum and incredibly well-preserved. I thought it was crazy how well-preserved the tapestries were, seeing as its only fabric and they've been around for almost 1000 years now. The centerpiece of the museum was a set of 6 tapestries entitled the Lady and the Unicorn, which is one of the most unique examples of tapestry that they have. They think it was made sometime in the late 1400s, but it wasn't found until the mid 1800s and I presume that it had been sitting in a trunk somewhere all that time, and yet is in perfect condition. I also found the woodcarvings especially impressive. I wish my camera had been working!!!!!  Lets face it, I can paint better than they could in the Middle Ages, but they could carve miniature scenes into a piece of wood as big as my thumbnail with perfect detail! It was very impressive, even if the body proportions were slightly off (they really couldn't get babies right. In all of the Virgin Mary statues it looks like she's holding an elf).

So what else? We tried to rent bikes from the Velib' system and ride around the Latin Quarter but the machine didn't like our credit cards :( So we strolled a bit but since it was Sunday all of the stores in that area were closed, so we ended up just having a very relaxing afternoon. Grandma took a nap, I went out for a walk for about an hour and then read. I tell you, my sense of direction has improved a hundredfold since I've been here. I've always been fairly decent at getting myself around but I have not gotten us lost once! I had my first small mishap today, and it wasn't even that bad. We were taking the Metro from the Latin Quarter to Le Bon Marche, where Grandma wanted to go shop (it was closed.) and there were two lines on the map that were shades of yellow and they were both at the stop we got on at, so I mayyyyy have led us first to the wrong train BUT I realized it before we got on the train or anything. Grandma was a little mad until she realized that we would've found ourselves in the Ukraine if she was in charge of navigation :)