Super Tourists

Our visitors Becca and Jean departed for Duluth this past weekend. It was great having them (and getting to practice my English...hopefully I won't forget after this year ;). They were indeed Super Tourists, as evidenced by the day where they tackled both the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay in a single day. That calculates out to appreciating an amazing 19.53 masterpeices of Western art per hour (Statistics painstakingly researched by myself)! Impressive. Very impressive.

I'll show the last bit of photos I have from their visit, this last batch from our stroll around Montmartre. In contrast to the last time I was there with my parents when it was ceaselessly pouring down rain, this past weekend it was genuinely beautiful--I would even describe it as "T-shirt weather!"-and the lawn in front of the Basilique de Sacre Coeur was covered with people basking in the glory of an unexpected February sunshine. Also shown are some of the paintings we came across at the Place du Tertre, a public square with a host of artists and caricaturists plying their trade.

French of the Day: the phrase, "clouer le bec à qqn" means literally "to nail shut the beak of somebody"--basically, a rude way of telling somebody to shut the hell up.