Musée des Arts et Métiers

 Hello all!

I've made myself a new goal for the remainder of my stay here in Paris and that is to go to at least one museum and try one new restaurant per week. This past weekend I visited Musée des Arts et Métiers for the first time. It was essentially a science and inventions museum. I was able to see some of the first versions of clocks, weight-scales, looms, airplanes, etc. Also some Space Robots! And old-school calculators. Of course my entry was free as I fell under the -26 years old category. Gotta love that. Here are some pictures from my visit, enjoy!

Model of the construction of the Statue of Liberty.

This part of the museum is actually the "St. Martin Church" connected and at the end of the visit. Probably one of the more interesting rooms of the museum, just look at these planes! Who would have thought you'd see things like that in a church?

Well, I'll be back with more soon. 2 months left, can't believe it!

-Michael

Musée des arts et métier

Fontainebleau

More nature! Well my friends and I took a pretty spontaneous trip to a small town called Fontainebleau yesterday. It's about 40 minutes outside of Paris via train. We arrived at the station and suddenly realized we had no idea where to go, so we asked around and found our way into the forest.

It wasn't hard at all to find the hiking paths, but we decided to make it a little more interesting for ourselves as you can see in the photo above. Although there was a clearly paved road, we decided to skip that and just scale a little hill. Our more adventurous short cut.

Erika, our botany expert explained a few things to us as we walked through the forest.

These last two photos are a couple of my favorite that I took with my camera that is slowly starting to lose it's life. We eventually found a lookout point that had a good view of the town and everything surrounding it.

Started feeling a little chilly so we went back to the train station and headed back to Paris. It was nice to be out of the city for a bit to breathe in some good clean air. It was also a very sunny day so I'm glad I didn't spend it inside.

Tomorrow's Monday so this week will most likely pass without exciting anything but then again, it's Paris so one never knows what to expect :)

Buttes Chaumont

Hello everyone!

Nothing too interesting has been happening with me lately unfortunately. I've started up school AND work so that occupies most of time. Especially on Thursdays when I have class from 9am-6pm. Rough! But, I did manage to go to a really nice park in Paris last week called Buttes Chaumont with my friends Megan and Kira. It was huge!|

The statue on our right is a Greek God that protects nature. After walking around the park for a couple hours, we discovered a EURO store. The equivalent of a dollar store. The lady there said I spoke French very well, how nice :)

Well I'm back in the grind but only about 4 months remain on my stay here so I have to soak up as much Paris as I can!

-Michael