day 2

May 19, 2013

i arrived at the apartment in the 18th arrondissement yesterday early afternoon to discover our beautiful view:

view from our apartment

i put my stuff down, took a quick shower in our typical leaky french shower (i don’t get it but hey, david lebovitz agrees it’s a problem), ate a quick croque monsieur at genier de pan and ran off to the grand palais.

i wandered around dynamo…

which thankfully was filled with some of my favorite artists like alexander calder, dan flavin and anish kapoor

dan flavin

metallic wall explosion

alexander calder, my favorite

then i ran off to the palais de tokyo for some super contemporary business. the building was spectacular more than the art, hence the lack of pictures.

i headed back to the apartment around 6pm, wandered around, got some bread from the local boulangerie, some cheese from the fromagerie (i went a lil crazy), some pate de fois from this lovely little grab and go butcher dinnertogo and somethingorother place (it was kind of like a minimini parisian version of joans on third) and a bottle of rose.

nom

then it was early to bed. i slept for 12 hours. man was i exhausted.

now i’m waiting for lovely kat to arrive, drinking some mariage freres tea (my fave) and some pampemousse rose yogurt (i die).