On Sunday, my friend Rachel and I decided to hit up some other place that were open for Patrimony Days. We decided to call it "We're-Glad-We-Didn't-Pay-For-This-Day." The first stop was the Wine Museum that is equipped with really amusing mannequins. Then we walked to Honoré de Balzac's (a 19th century French novelist and playwright) house. After the two museums, we bought some pastries and ate them in the park by my house until it got too cold and we went inside.
Wine Museum.
First mannequin scene. I have no idea who these men were supposed to be.
Mannequins making wine bottles.
Napoleon discovering his favorite wine.
A wine glass from the 6th century.
Vats for making white wine. I'm not really sure how they use it because everything was in French and my french wine vocabulary isn't quite up to par.
Another really large vat for making wine. You can't really tell how large it is, but it was taller than me.
View from Balzac's gardens.
Balzac's house. It wasn't actually that exciting.
Trees in the park.
The park.
My apartment is behind those trees. Ironically, I ate lunch in this park on my first day in France, before I knew where I was living and I remember looking at the buildings, thinking, Wow, I wonder if people actually live there? That's my friend, Sara in the corner of the photo.
Me! In the park!
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