Baby the rain must fall!

I have never known it to rain so many days in a row.  But C"est La Vie,  This is Paris.  This blog is about Thursday, Nov 11 and Friday Nov, 12.  On thursday morning I got up early, got my clothes together and took them to the laundromat which was only about a block away.  Yep you were right.  It was raining and also a little chilly.  But I was happy to get my clothes washed and got back to the apartment to have a cup of coffee and enjoy the warmth of the apartment.  Thursday is Vetrens day in the USA and also here in France.  All of the government buildings despite the rain hung out the French flag in memory of the soligers who fought for France:s peace.   Despite the rain and the fact that Dona and I were tired from the previous days activity of visiting Belgium, we decided this would be a good day to visit the Parthenon that is only about 3 blocks from our apartment.  The wind and rain were bitter as we walked there.  We first tried to visit the St. Geniveie Church.  St. Genive is the Patron Saint of France.  I had visited the church early in my first days of my visit to Paris and I was able to walk around.  But today the doors were locked and we surmised that they may have closed the church for renovation.  The Parthenon however was open.  This building goes back to the 13th century when it was felt that a building dedicated to France and its peoples history needed to be constructed.  Thought the centurys it has changed and continues to adds information regarding the history of France  and burial sites of important French figures.  It is a massive building and on this day it was cold and dark.  Since I had seen it and just wanted to get out of the rain and cold I found a place to sit and read while Dona walked around and saw the frescos reporting the history of France, starting from the invasion by the Huns,  She marveled at the pendulum that is attached to the top of the dome and reports the time by the movement of the earth.  She then visited the crypts in the basement. She was impressed by them as I had been on my previous visit.  We left the Parthenon and hurried home to the apartment, cursing the rain and cold.  We got back to the apartment and was happy to be in the warm rooms.  We sat and were reading when a knock came to the door.   As I did not want to open the door to someone we did not know and since we really do not know any one in Paris I asked though the door who was it.  The man voice on the other side said open the door.  I said no, who are you and what do you want.  He would not acknowledge who he was but started to rant and rave about how noisy we were when we would come into the building by slamming the door. and that he wanted us to stop making that noise as there were other people living in the building who wanted quiet.  Through the door I apologixed to him and he went away still spuddering.  Dona and I really do not remember slamming the doors and since we have been here we have not listened to the TV or the Radio.  However ever since his knock on the door we have been very careful and extremely quite when we go out.
Friday morning:   I slept surprisingly late.  It was 830 when I got out of bed and took a shower and washed my hair.  I woke up Dona and we had a nice breakfast of scrambled eggs, french bread, salami and cheeses that Dona had purchased the day before.  Our plan for today was to go to the Orangerie Musee, which is near the Plance of Concorde and the Tullerie gardens. We took the Metro and found that it was still raining and a little rainny.  We happened to walk by the Paris Vision office and we decided to go in and book our trip to the Fountainbeu for Saturday.  I was surprised to find the office so near to the louve as I had gone a different way the past few times we had gone there.  The walk to the Orangeie musee was farther that I thought but it was a good walk for us.  We could always use the excercise.  We thought the muse entrance would be free because we thought that the ticket we bought for the D"orsay musee was good for 4 days at the Orangerie musee.  Wrong/  According to the ticket lady we had not requested at the D:orsay the right ticket to get into both musees so we needed to buy another ticket to the Orangerie Musee.  Finaly after getting our tickets and purchasing the audio headsets we were off to see Monet;s famous in the round paintings of his water lillies.  Two oval rooms, sort of in a figure 8 pattern display the long canvases of Water lillies.  The affect is truely delightful.  This building was built to display these works by Monet himself.  He painted these water lillies pictures toward the end of his life.  The building and plans were done at that time.  Unfortunately he died before the project was completed and he never got to see the wonderful rooms that his paintings now decorate.  This is a not to be missed musee.  It was breathtaking viewing these water lillies works.  The lower floor houses other important paintings by Remoir, Utrillo, Modgilando, Cezanne, Demain, Solline, and Piscasso.  The audio guides provided wonderful commentaries of the artists work and subjects.  also in another set of room was a exhibition of Photographs by Henry Kuln, who turned Phootgraphy inot an art form in the middle 1800s and early 1900.s  By the time Dona and I had looked and listened to all the commentaries we were pictured out and we left and decided to go back to the apartment.  Again it was misting and cold.  Back at the apartment we relaxed and took naps and read until about 7pm.  We then went out to surprising milder weather and no rain.  The temp now was about 60 degrees and the walk though no rain was wonderful.  We found a good restaurant that had good salads and enjoyed the meal.  We now are back at the apartment and ready to call it a night.  We look forward to seeing the fountainbleu tomorrow. It is only a 5 hr trip from 1 to 6 30. 
I must admit to all of you that I am wearing down and winding down to end this great trip.  There is only 3 days left that we have to visit Paris before we fly home on Tuesday.  We have our plans for those days and and we are hoping those days are sunny and without rain.!!!  One of those days it turns out is Dona;s Birthday.  Hopefully that will be a sunny day and an pleasant eventful day.