Getting to know Paris better

I am getting so busy with all my activities to see as much as  I can of the museums, churches and other sites that I hardly have time to blog.  So I am backtracking a little so that I can catch up.  I must say I was exhaused after the Versailles trip.   So I wanted this day to be a little easier.  I suggested to Lisa we take a ride on the hop on hop off bus and end up at the Orsay.  She agreed and we took the metro to the Louve where we knew we could get the hop on hop off bus.  We went on the hop on hop off tour called the grand tour.  It gave an overview of the Eiffel tower, the Champs Elysees, Louve, Notre Dame, Place of the Invalides and we got off about the place where the Musee d'Orsay is located.
The musee d'Orsay is housed in a old train station that was renovated.  The afternoon we spent there it was not crowded.  After using the auto guide at the louve and Versailes we decided this was a good idea and we got the autoguide for this museum.  This was a good idea as it gave great commentaries on the paintings and the artists. This museum is a great foundation for the different periods of painting styles up to and beyond the impressionist. I enjoyed renewing my knowledge of these era's and seeing some of the great masters of the naturalist movement, the realest movement, pre impressionism, impressionism and a little beyond.  I really think that there is a progression of museums you should visit in Paris.  Certainly the Louve is a good overall view of art, but the Musee d' Orsay really focuses on the 1800's- t0 1920's of the great art movement from realism, naturalist, et. al  to the art movement called faubism.  After I get a chance to see them all I will map out the progression of what museums the common tourist should see in order to get a good picture of European Art progression.
Lisa and I saw most of the Orsay but all of a sudden time was up and we had not gotten to the top gallery that held paintings of the water lillies by Monet.  As it turns out Lisa did go back and found that the paintings had been loaned out to another institute somewhere and we really did not miss them.
So at about 7pm we headed back to the apartment.  We stopped and had a little supper at a place on Mouffetard street where Lisa had her first crepes and I just had salad.  We got back to the apartment and began plotting our next day activities.  I must comment that the weather has been perfect for us.