Today we were both a bit tired from yesterday's festivities, but time waits for no person and we have begun to work on our plans for our little vacation trip in October. Due to the issues with Hungary being swamped with refugees from the middle east we feel that we will have to give a pass on Budapest (boo hoo). In it's place we've decided that we will start in Berlin, then travel to Prague and Czesky Krumlov, and end in Vienna. To that end we went to the train station to find out what the fares for the trains would cost, we had an incredibly pleasant and courteous man who was very helpful, and the final fares came out to 850 euros for both of us. When he saw that price he suggested that perhaps we might be better off buying a Eurail pass and so he looked at that and said we could get a pass that would let us take all the legs for about half the price, but he couldn't sell them. We have to go to Gare de Lyon to actually buy them, and we have to have our passports so that comes tomorrow. 
After we finished there we caught a bus across town so that we could go to the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris at the Palais de Tokyo. This is the museum that we took Jim to during his visit, we wanted to go through again and see things we missed that time. Last year I took an art class at Metro focused on European art between the world wars, and this museum has many pieces that were created during that period so I was interested to see many of them. Certainly one of the artists that have impressed us the most is Robert Delaunay, with his bold colors and dynamic compositions we were dazzled.
I also liked this portrait of Andre Breton, the philosophical force behind the Dada movement.
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