We woke up early the next day, and made our way to the Emerson hotel. We ate breakfast there and headed out for a day full of tours. First was the tour of the Church of the Notre Dame…. It was pretty. There were candles inside, and I turned to Irving and said, “Awe, lets light a candle together!” and then I saw it was 2 euros to do that, and I screamed, “What? Two Euros? Forget that!” It was funny.
First was the Chapel of the Saint Chappell. It was beautiful, the stained glass windows were really amazing.
Whitney too us to a department store, and took the elevator to the top floor… from there, we had an unbelievable view of Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in full view! Then we ate lunch (Crepes with chocolate and bananas!)
Then, we headed to the Louvre again… this time to actually go inside. We looked at statues of Venus and Nike and listened to lectures about the history of them, that was cool, because that stuff interests me anyways. Then, we saw the Mona Lisa…. Yea, great… what a nice painting… but whats so great about it? I guess its famous and everything, but I wasn’t too impressed with it!
We learned about the history of the location of the Lourve itself. Underneath, it was excavated in 1992 and they found the remains of an old castle that was once torn down. It has the same structure of the Castle that I live in, in Well! It was impressive!
I also saw an Egyptian exhibit, where I saw a real-life mummy.. it was a female, probably about my age… and there it was.. right in front of me…. If I was dead and that old, I wouldn’t want people looking at me! But it was awesome, I’ve never seen anything like that before.
For Dinner, we headed to the Latin Quarte. But there was a manifestation for peace going on, so as Americans, we decided to avoid that, and ended up eating in a little Italian place. Then we headed to the Eiffel Tower! Irving and I wanted to climb the whole thing, but the stairs were closed… and I would have died doing that anyways. The whole thing was lit up, I couldn’t believe I was actually there. We took some pictures and enjoyed the view… but it was really, really cold up there… so after that, we headed back to the hotel.
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