Paris - Day 2

On our second day in Paris we did more wandering. The rain had cleared leaving everything fresh and clean. We started the day at Luxembourg Gardens (with more bad coffee). We thought that you could tour Luxembourg Palace so we wandered on in past the armed guards, only to be told once we were in the lobby that it was a parliament building and we needed an invitation from a Senator to get in... Unfortunately I had left all my senatorial invites at home, so we had to leave. But the gardens were beautiful.

Luxembourg Palace and Gardens

Luxembourg Palace and Gardens

After that we headed just up the street to the Paris Pantheon, an amazing building despite the picture hanging out the front. The crypts underneath are not amazing as far as crypts go, but they host some fairly famous people. I didn't take many photos because I took a lot last time.

Paris Pantheon 

Paris Pantheon 

Paris Pantheon

On our way out we came across a creperie, so that was lunch. We went back to Luxembourg Gardens so the kids could run of their lunch, and then headed across the river to check out Atelier des Lumieres, an exhibition made completely from sound and projected light. It went for 25 minutes and was amazing! The photos don't do it justice, and imagine all the scenes moving and merging to the accompaniment of hauntingly beautiful music.

Atelier des Lumières

By then it was time to wander towards home, but Miss L still hadn't had a sleep (she appears to have gone from 3 sleeps per day to one while we have been away!). So we decided to start walking in the general direction and then grab an Uber after she woke up. An hour and 45 minutes later she had napped for 25 minutes and we had made it all the way back to our apartment.

The next day we were headed for Versailles.