Paris: Check

Meet up with the Jan Term group of MC Professor Thelma Rohrer, the woman who does everything: Check.

View of Paris from the amazingly elevation of the Sacre Coeur church (which used to be in the countryside outside of Paris: Check.


Visit the oh-so-opulent Opera Garnier, home to the Phantom: Check.


See (at least) two sections of the impossibly large Louvre museum: Check.


Be silly in the courtyard of the Royal Palace: Check.


Visit roomfuls of Monet's waterlilies, Orangerie Museum: Check.


Stand next to a VanGogh painting in the Musee d'Orsay: Check.


Bask in the stain-glass-window-tainted light of Ste. Chapelle, the "jewel box" of Paris: Check.

Also accomplished: the Musee Cluny (medieval and Renaissance art), Centre Pompidou (contemporary and modern art), an afternoon in a cafe, mastering the metro system, good and adequate sleep and food, entertaining company, and no missed trains!