Sunday was a perfectly pleasant day spent solo. I woke up late, had a nice little breakfast in the apartment, got ready and decided to go visit one of my favorite museums in Paris: le Musee d'Orsay. Once a train station, the museum houses primarily impressionist paintings and it is home to the majority of the more famous impressionist paintings (see below). There is a welcome tranquil ambiance in the museum and I had a lovely time wandering for a couple hours throughout the various rooms listening to music on my iPod. Yes, folks, I am that pretentious grad student, isn't it fabulous?
After the Musee d'Orsay, I went back to the apartment to relax and take a nap, because that evening I was getting dinner with my friend, Stephane (you'll remember him from Florence and Venice), who lives in one of the Parisian suburbs. We met up outside the Gare du Nord and since I was hungry and craving Indian food no less, we set off on the hunt for some dinner. After turning around the corner from Gare du Nord we stumbled upon a number of Indian restaurants and went inside one that was inexpensive and authentic-looking. For 6 Euro a piece we each got delicious entrees, rice, and naan. I was one happy camper. We had both been wanting to see Woody Allen's new movie, Midnight in Paris, and looked to see if it was playing anywhere close by. After finding that it was playing in a movie theater near Les Halles in the 1st district in about an hour, we decided to go on foot to the theater in order to walk off the filling Indian food dinner and to get some fresh air. I had never walked from my neighborhood in that direction, always preferring to take the metro, and so it was nice to see new sights and catch up with Stephane along the way. Arriving just in time for the movie, we went in to see if Woody's testament to Paris was any good. Although I am a huge Woody Allen fan or rather, because I am a huge Woody Allen fan, Midnight in Paris wasn't my favorite. Don't get me wrong, I laughed constantly, loved the cast (particularly my lady crush, Marion Cotillard), and thought the story was cute, but it just wasn't one of his best. I think I found more amusement in the fact that I was the only one consistently cracking up in the movie theater at the smaller jokes, those Frenchies just didn't get the subtle humor in the movie.
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