Even though today was not officially a work day, we had so much free time it might as well have been. We've progressively been getting more and more solo time as we get later and later into the trip, which is definitely a plus. I don't know what I would have been done if I had time to roam Paris by myself at the beginning of the trip. Nancy tells this story of the first time she went to the Louvre without Herman, and she says that she was curled up in a ball in one of the many, many corners of the museum. I assume it would look kinda like that. Now I think that I confidently say I can navigate nearly anywhere in Paris, and get lost a minimal amount of times.
This was the second day where I decided to go to a place that was not on syllabus. Today I went to the Natural History Museum of France and saw the evolution exhibit. A big plus, it was free for anyone under the age of 26. The only downside about the museum was that all the exhibit descriptions were in French, so there were somethings where I had no idea what I was looking at. The stuff I could understand, I really enjoyed. There were exhibits over the origin of the species, prehistoric birds, and creatures of the sea. I would definitely say that it was worth the money.
We ended the day by going to the Comédie Française where we saw Un Fil à la Patte. If I had not read the play before hand, I think I still would have found it funny. Knowing what was happening was just a bonus. For me, a lot of the comedy didn't come from what the characters said. It was the the reaction, the way they said it, or the overall character profile of a specific person. Bouzin may have possibly been my favorite person I have watched in any production. He was just a very quirky character, and he was played by an amazing actor who was able to portray his eccentric character with movements alone. Put simply, the actor was a genius.
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