Friday, the 16th day of April

You know what? I'm not even going to apologize for my lateness because everyone else seems to be equally late. So yeah, Givernie. Has anyone mentioned that the busses we've been riding in seem to have some freaky alien technology that just saps your energy the minute you sit down? Because after 1.25 hours I was mad beat (albeit only temporarily). That changed once I saw Monet's garden becuase I was too busy being amazed at the sheer volume of flowers. There was just row upon row upon row of flowers as far as the eye could see. I mean, we're talking mad flowers. In any case, the actual house was a bit of an enigma, because aside from one room with a bunch of Monet reproductions, it was filled with hundreds of Japanese paintings. I don't know if Monet just really liked Japanese art or if there was some business agreement or what. After that, we paid a visit the famous pond which was really cool. It's the kind of place where you can just sit for a long time and think deep, metaphorical thoughts and have deep, metaphorical conversations with people. After being late getting back to the group and missing our opportunity to get ice cream, we walked over to the impressionist art museum where our guide, thankfully, spoke English. Not a whole lot to say about that because it was pretty much exactly what you would expect, but parts of it were honestly very interesting.