Day 9- 4 June

Alright, gotta go to bed soon because tomorrow I'm doing Versailles, because if you're in France you gotta do Versailles. Then I plan on making Sunday a museum day, because the first Sunday of every month almost all of the museums will let you in for free, and this includes the one with the Mona Lisa. Tres cool. Monday will be Montmartre, because the flea market is open then, with a visit to the very famous Sacre Coeur and a walking tour.

Whew. Today was a walking around day, touring the Jardin du Luxembourg more extensively, and notably visiting Bois du Boulogne again. I went specifically to go into the greenhouses, which were closed last time, and I was not disappointed; there were pretty much no other people in them, and they were really neat. The most attention-grabbing was one filled with cacti, and the greenhouses are made so that there's a path you can walk around in a loop and have plants on both sides, very neat. I think that they're slowly renovating them [there are 3 buildings and a total of fifteen or so individual greenhouses], because two on the far end had more contemporary, wandering paths and newer signs, but I would think it'd be difficult to change the cactus greenhouse much; you know how slowly they grow, and some of these things were huge! Another greenhouse contained nothing but different types of fig trees from at least three continents. The bigger greenhouse was a two-part replication of rain forest, one more tropical than the other, and these were my favorites; both had fish ponds, one with huge koi [so cute!] and another with cichlids and fish I recognized from Amazon aquariums [aka really big]. Took lots of photos, saw tons of bizarre stuff, and very little of it came from the United States. Hung with fellow Abroadco students for a bit, tried some new French food, and then they went drinking and I came back here, because I'm going to Versailles tomorrow, and they're all going to have hangovers.

Today's edition of weird stuff about France: People living on the street will occasionally have pets, like dogs, which you would expect. What you would not expect is for a guy to have a rabbit. Also, I'm pretty sure that anyone who's polite to you on the metro is foreign.