Ripped off and Souf'ed up!

Mondays are a tough day in Paris. Sunday, you generally know that everything is closed. Monday however, is always hit and miss..  SOME museums are open, SOME are closed... Court and I decided that, since we are staying in Paris for the remainder of our trip, we should go see some of the modern art exhibits that people we have run into keep raving about. 

Let me start by saying that I HATE modern art. I dont hate all modern art, just modern art that is considered "Modern Art." However, with the new theme of our remaining days in Paris being 'exhibit exploration' I decided to open my mind up to the concept a bit more...

Today we went to the Luxembourg museum to the exhibit called "Miro to Warhol" ..  It is 80 modern art pieces from the private collection that they repeatedly remind you is the "Most important collection in Portugal."  

If this is the important stuff, I would hate to see the unimportant.

For starters, the ticket price was 11 euro each, and after the audio guide at 4.50, we were into this thing for 26.50. Thats EURO remember...  so it's a hair over 30 dollars American...  That is SIX double-Doubles at In-N-Out....  But I digress...

So we get in and find that the audio guide is only good for like 6 paintings in the museum.  Also, when you listened, it just talked about the artist and some of his OTHER works...  Not really the piece at hand...  Kind of like when we were at the Royal museum in London, and the lady kept telling us about all the beautiful colorful frescos...  that are at the Louvre.

Anyhow.. The art was literally awful. I have seen better collections of art in my garbage can. Plus, for having the name WARHOL slapped proudly across the banner out front, you would thing they would have more than TWO prints... ONE of which being.. you guessed it.. a can of Campbells Soup. 

The museum took 30 mins to get through..  and when we left, C and I sort of looked at each other and said "Wow.. THAT was a waste." Oh well.. they can't all be winners.... 

Anyhow.... Since C and I live for contrast, we ended up having dinner at a place that really WAS a winner... 

My mom has been raving about this place for years...  It is kind of around the corner from us. and specializes in soufflé! Neither Courtney or I had ever had a souffle before (as far as we could remember) so we were pretty excited to try something new!

They were delicious! C got Truffle and I got 'Fromage' which was some kind of really good cheese! For desert, we shared a 'caramel and sea salt' souffle as well!

So, even though the day started rough, it ended with a great dinner! Thanks for the recommendation mom!