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Paris blog 2010/12/23
Paris was very snowy today! Totally annoying! The air isn't that cold, so the snow is sort of wet and sticks to you, BUT, the wind is super cold and annoying. So, we all agreed that it was too cold to wander around and we decided to do museums today and tomorrow. We met Lisa at Republique and bought a Paris Visite pass for 5 days so that we don't have to keep finding change for the metro all the time. We decided to do the Centre Pompidou first because it looks so interesting. The line to get in wasn't too bad and we bought 2 day Paris Museum passes. The first thing that happens at the Pompidou centre is that you have to go around the outside of the building on the escalators. This is totally awesome. The view was great, even though the weather outside was frightful. We took a lot of photos at the top. The main galleries are modern art to 1980 and then 1980+ and the 1980+ section had a focus on women artists. It was totally awesome.
We then spent AGES in the bookshop and interesting thing shop. Lots of books were on special, but they were usually really heavy and annoying. Lisa and I agreed that we wanted a cool book for around 10 euros which was small enough to carry with us. We couldn't find anything meeting all three conditions.
LUNCH was at a nice place nearby that specialised in grilled cheesy sandwiches. Nice and inexpensive.
THEN, we wanted to do another museum, but it was pretty late, so we went to Musée de Arts et Metiers since I remembered it was pretty small. Getting in was a bit weird. They wanted us to produce our museum passes to get ANOTHER ticket, and then a lady waved us through while trying to get us to join a tour or something which we didn't care about and then ANOTHER person scrutinised both tickets. Weird. We had no idea what was going to be on at this museum, but the temporary exhibit was a retrospective on video games and it was totally rad. The focus was playing the games and they had lots of representative games from the last 30 years set up and ready to play. Obviously, NES had Super Mario Bros, Gameboy had Tetris, N64 had Goldeneye, there was Lemmings (Chrissy played) etc. It was super awesome. We were all blown away.
The rest of the museum was a bit dusty and tired but was still reasonably interesting (or maybe we were tired).
Luckily the museum shop wasn't selling awesome video games and consoles or charles may have spent all his money.
THEN we got tired and had to come home! Baguette and salad for dinner from the boulangerie. Yum.
Extra info: We went to a supermarket and got some deserts and some more bottled water. When we got home, the water turned out to be all salty. Weird? Who wants to drink salty water??
