La Bastille, L'Eglise de St. Andres & Le Musee de Grenoble

Bonjour, friends! I had a busy day today! Woke up and met a few kids from my group at the Notre Dame Museum tramp stop on line B, and then we went and got lunch at this cute little restaurant called Le Librarie Le Sphinx.  Yeah, I don't get it either.  Anyway, I had a croissant and a tomato mozzarella salad, that had lots of olive oil on it and salad greens beneath it.  It was really good, fast service, and not too expensive.  Afterwards, we went took the telepherique up to La Bastille.  The telepherique is like a gondola that traverses the width of the River Isere, which wraps around Grenoble.  We were going to walk down when we got to the top of the mountain where La Bastille is, but of course it started pouring.  So we went exploring and found a long tunnel with a LOT of stairs at the end.  We climbed them, rested for a bit, and then climbed some more.  At the top we found another tunnel with holes in the walls.  We stayed in the tunnels for shelter from the rain.  La Bastille was built to protect the city of Grenoble from intruders a few hundred years ago.  We eventually took the telepherique back down, and found refuge in a church from  the 13th century, St. Andres.  It was gorgeous inside, with tons of old biblical paintings and beautiful stained glass.  After that, we went to Le Musee de Grenoble,  which had a lot of classical Italian-style art (think biblical scenes, etc.) and some artifacts stolen from Egypt in the basement.  There was another exhibit with African art that I didn't have time to go to.  I'll go back sometime this week though.  One thing that was weird about the museum was that the paintings aren't in glass cases! Hmm. Strange.  Anyway, I'm super tired so I'm putting myself to bed.  Gotta get up early tomorrow.  My new Armenian friend Raffi and I split our homework for tomorrow so we each only have to do half! Devilish, I know.  But do they really think I'm going to read 100 pages a night en francais? Non, merci!

Oh, and p.s. I've posted up some pictures on Facebook.  For you non-believers, here are the public links (you'll have to copy & paste the address into your web browser) :

Vercors: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003539&I=91398&id=1263930046

Grenoble: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003538&I=a3006&id=1263930046