Church in Paris

Since Vance and I are in completely different time zones (I'm 8 hours ahead of him) we don't get to talk much (I know, I'm in Paris so I should be happy about just being able to send messages over Facebook) Well this morning I woke up to a Voxer message (it's like texting only you can send voice messages too) It was Vance telling me good morning as he was just about to go to bed. I thought that was a very good start to my morning.

 

(haha you can see me in the reflection)

After getting ready for church we headed out on the subway (by the way this was my first time ever on a subway). We got to the area we needed to be then headed out in search of the meeting place… Well we ended up going in a huge circle around it till we actually got there. Once there I was surprised to see so many people, there were two rooms one that looked like it was the actual chapel and then the other (the one we were in) where all the "foreigners" (my words not theirs) were with english translation of what was being said. The speakers were really quiet so it was hard to hear what was actually being said but from one talk I found something very important, "When we leave our comfort zone that is where we find faith and miracles…"

When church was over Gladysue and I were going to go with her friend to make sure she met up with the others who she was going to see. Well we could not find them anywhere. After a relaxing sit in front of a water fountain we decided to look one more place before we moved on.

 

Since we couldn’t find the people we decided to go into the museum that was there, the Musée de L'Orangerie (this is also where I got my museum pass!!!). There were many different paintings but my favorite was the collection of Monet Water lilies.  Whenever I thought Monet's paintings I would think of them being a normal size, not very big. But these were huge they covered most of the wall. There were two rooms with these paintings, Each room had four paintings that wrapped around the room. When we were done with the museum we headed back to the hotel where we met back up with Melanie and Wesley and got pastries, Gladysue and I got croissants with chocolate, it was delicious! After that Gladysue, Mel, and Wes went to move Mel and Wes to a new hotel, we were only supposed to have two people in a room in our hotel not three so they had to get a room somewhere else… While the went I stayed behind to rest and enjoy the Sabbath day by watching 17 Miracles (I ended up watching it twice because I kept falling asleep the first time) and writing a letter. But probably one of the best things about today was ending it with Skyping Vance:)