View of the Rodin through the back Gardens
Pretty Pretty jardins
The Thinker, Rodin, 1902
One of my favorite memories would be from my first ever vacation I've taken on my own to visit my sister in London for 12 days(with a day in Oxford and 3 split between Canterbury and Dover) and 3 days in Paris this past summer. One of my favorite memories of the trip was sitting in the back lawn of the gardens of the Musee de Rodin in the last hours of my brief time in Paris. My sister and I chose to spend the 1 euro to get into the gardens rather t nhan see the entire museum and I highly recommend it. The gardens are beautiful, and The Thinker is there so you get to see Auguste Rodin's most well known masterpiece all the while. At the very back of the gardens there is a lounge area with grass, a sandbox and wood lawn chairs. The changing leaves of early fall and the fact that I could see the Hotel des Invalides behind the hedge and the Rodin to my right was so surreal and happy it was literally like I was floating on a cloud. The 20 minutes my sister and I spent simply relaxing is one of my "Paris" images that comes to mind when I think back. It was then when I truely absorbed what I had done, finally taking my first solo, self paid trip and I felt... like an actual grownup, for probably the first time in my life and it felt amazing. That 16 day trip was by far the most fulfilling and incredible experience of my life, but those 20 odd minutes sitting, reflecting on a bench at the Musee de Rodin were really some of my life's happiest moments.
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