Au Revoir Paris

We leave for Amsterdam tomorrow. The last couple days have been pretty lazy.  They've mostly involved reading and casual strolls here and there.  Nothing to major.  Lots of getting up late and napping throughout this trip also.  With as fast as life tends to go, it's been a nice slow down.  That being said, we seem to be turning into party poopers - we're really pretty much ready to go home. lol.

We've been staying at a quite palatial AirBnB in the heart of Paris.  Our AirBnB hostess has been on travel herself for almost all of it, so we've really had the place to ourselves with the exception of a day and a half.  It's made taking it easy, a little easier.

Yesterday I can't even remember what we did other then go to a restaurant and eat with the Parisians. We've been apprehensive about doing this as we've been unsure about how to go about it all.  They eat outside rain, shine or snow I think.  We finally decided to go for it and bumble our way through.  We had a few missteps, but all and all it went well and the lunch was great.  I'm sick to death of bread and sandwiches, which is what we've been mostly eating as they're easy to order and in abundance.

About 6 months ago I started following a newsletter called My Modern Met.  They advertised that there was a Van Gogh immersive art experience taking place in Paris and it happened to be today, so we were able to book tickets.  It was at the Atelier des Lumieres and turned out to be pretty good.  They had beautiful music playing with van Gogh's art in motion throughout being projected onto the walls and put into motion.  The room was huge and everywhere you looked the art was being displayed or moving.  I'll attach a couple videos, hopefully you can see what I mean.

After that we headed off to Pere Lachaise Cemetery where the likes of Oscar Wild, Georges Seurat, Fredrick Chopin and of course Jim Morrison are buried (among others).  It has been cold and rainy the past couple days, but we're finding the rain comes and goes and is never heavy.  So, it rained off and on, but we were prepared as we walked through the cemetery so it worked out ok.

Then we hoofed it back to the AirBnB and watched movies and read!

Reading on our balcony.

Nick sipping espresso on our balcony.

The view from our bedroom window.

Two kids goofing around.

Before the Van Gogh experience started, this was another artists work that was playing.

A still of the art on the walls - you can see the people on the floor watching.

Another shot.

Jim Morrison's tomb.  It's gated off (not overly well), but you can see people still manage to put things on the tomb.

Beautiful row in the cemetery.

Many of the tombs / caskets had these beautiful porcelain flowers on the top of them.