Mercredi evening greetings! After sleeping around the clock, I got up this morning very refreshed and ready for what turned out to be a lovely day. Richard and I had already decided to skip the scheduled bus tour, because it was going to drive by places we'd visited in depth 3 years ago. Our new friends Bill and Marilyn joined us to go to Musee de l'Orangerie to see Monet's water lilies and assorted works of Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, and others. On the way to the museum we rode the Tuileries carousel: