A full day in Paris and then dinner

I pretend that I can still just go on forever and the reality is I am exhausted from a day of walking and a night of walking too!

We started out the day at the Musee Les Arts Decoratifs which is one of the several museums inside the Louvre.  One the current exhibits is a retrospective of Dries Van Noten.  I’d say over the past 5 years there has been an explosion of exhibits highlighting a designers career.  I have seen many of them.  What is interesting is to just see the beauty in each of the pieces from the inspiration to the details.  This particular piece was certainly an inspiration to this capsule that was displayed.

This was the dress that he made based on that piece.

We then walked all the way over to the Au Palais de Tokyo.  The museum itself is an amazing space and sitting outside for lunch is wonderful for the views.  We had lunch first.  I had a tuna carpaccio laden with a sesame oil and a small dollop of roasted eggplant and creme fraice.  Light fare.

In the museum the exhibits were out there.  What we really wanted to see was not open until tomorrow.  This thing that I really liked about this exhibit was the installation of videos on the floor.  You could watch them from above or walk through them below.

We had an errand to run in the 9th so decided to stop by an old favorite of ours which is a chocolate shop run by a unique character.  She had bought chocolate from all over the world.  So bummed that she has closed.  Alas.

We then walked back from there towards Palais Royal.  It is so beautiful there.  Did a little shopping and walked back to the hotel for dinner.

All and all an exhausting but fun day.