Quel Dimanche

Sundays in the States have always been days full of errands for me. It's been hard to get used to the fact that everything is closed on Sundays (albeit I'm sure most Museums are open). With so little time left in Paris I didn't want to lose a day and thus figured we should go on a tour of something I knew would be open: churches!

Churches are one of the things I love about Paris. Okay, for a Jew I’m pretty obsessed with this stuff but the amount of history in one Church far surpasses my country! I don’t think any of the ones we saw today were younger than the US. Not to mention the fact that each Church is a piece of art and yet different than the next. Almost every time we pass by a Church, I find us wandering in and wondering how we could walk pass and have no idea how much beauty was hidden.

Check out our pictures here to see what I’m talking about.

The day wasn’t full of churches, though. We came across the last remaining medieval homes and checked out the area my Grandma used to live (Avenue des Gobelins).

The highlight of our day was Val de Grâce, which is both a Hospital & Church for the military. In order to see the Church we had to visit the museum of the history of military medicine. Granted, I thought for sure the museum wouldn’t strike my fancy but it turned out to be really interesting. I’m sure Carrie would have liked it even more because she’d appreciate the artifacts more. Among the “primitive” microscopes, portable pharmacies, and the surgical tools I think I was most impressed with the syringes (yes, the image below are syringes!). I can’t even imagine what the needles attached to these suckers looked like!!

Leave it to me to print off information about each church in order to better understand the symbolism and history. The nice surprise today were les “Colombes” found in Val de Grâce. We may not live so close to Colombe but we’re definitely always thinking about her.