Notre Dame and Louvre

We visited Notre Dame and the Lourve at night the last night we were there. Notre Dame was very impressive inside.

I didn't get a lot of pictures because I realised that a service was going on at the moment, plus I don't think you could take pictures...



Model of Notre Dame.

I love all of the candles in the Cathedrals.

One of the gargoyles outside.

We also loved all of the details outside.

The River Seine

We loved the Louvre at night. It was so pretty.

I wanted a picture, too. :)

Basilique du Sacre-Coeur

We visited the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur, or the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. It's located on a hill that's the highest point in the city. It was quite the walk to get up there. :)

There was a harpist playing there. He sounded really nice.

It has a great view of the city.


The dome inside.

We went up in the dome, but the crypte was closed that day. The tickets are bought from an automated machine and five people in front of us couldn't get their cash to go in and gave up. I, however, was able to get ours in. People cheered for us.
Part of the way up included walking along the roof top.





The stairs going down.

One of the gargoyles.
Looking up from the ground.
It's right in the neighborhood of Montmartre, which is an artisits neighborhood. There were a ton of artists selling their paintings or offering to sketch you. Not a character sketch, but a nice, real life sketch.
We ate lunch in a cafe there.
That pink restuarant was near by and Gavin got the best crepe he has ever had there. He is still raving about it.
Since we were nearby, we walked over to the Moulin Rouge. It looked a lot different than we thought it would. I guess I was expecting something more like in the movie. It was in a pretty seedy neighborhood with sex shops and strip clubs everywhere. We left pretty quickly.

The Assemblee Nationale

This is the Armory Museum. We didn't get there in time to tour it, but we were able to walk around the grounds for a bit. Napoleon's tomb is in there, I believe.



We also wanted to see the Rodin Museum, but didn't make it to that in time. We mostly wanted to see The Thinker. While we were walking on the sidewalk next to it, we look over and could see The Thinker's butt in the garden of the museum.

Paris was a wonderful city and we had such a great time there. I really didn't want to leave. There really is something magial about there. This was our first time in a place that spoke a different language that neither of us understood. We were able to get by with a couple of phrases alright. I hope we are able to visit again soon!

The Catacombs and the Lachaise Cemetary

On Halloween, we went to the Catacombs. Since they were fairly close to our hotel, we decided to walk there. We walked the Jardin Du Luxembourg, which was really pretty.

There is a pond in the middle with some fountains and lots of ducks. The ducks even have their own little home.

The Catacombes were really cool and creepy. It is this vast network of tunnels under the streets, but now you can only tour a small section of it since people were damaging the bones. There are secret entrances to the tunnels where people like to go tour them on their one. That thought really creeped me out...

The entrance.

In one of the hallways.

This is a stairway that was part of the closed off section.

The Death Room.Some of the pictures are really blurry because you can't use a flash and I'm not very steady with the camera. They got fancy with some of the bones and made designs. If you can't tell, this one is some skulls in a heart.
A real skull and cross bone.

There are a ton of bones there. The stacks were really deep and really tall.

I finally got a good one of Gavin! He was sick of posing for a picture, but I was determined to get a non-blurry one of him.

The camera is showing it lighter there, but it was pretty dark down there. Every so often, there would be a light, but for the most part, it was really dark.

The ceiling before the exit.

After the Catacombs, we went to the Lachaise Cemetery. It houses a lot of famous people. It was incredible beautiful.

Oscar Wilde's grave.

People kissed all over it.

I didn't kiss it. It looked gross.


Some of the graves were really well taken care of. We passed a couple of people actually washing the tombs.


This grave was slightly open. We looked in but couldn't really see anything.



Each sidewalk was lined with little buildings like this. Most were locked, but some were open. We weren't sure what they were for because the ones that were open held supplies and garbage and other random stuff.


I loved looking at the tall tombstones.


Jim Morrison's grave. I was surprised where it was. It's tucked away in a corner and is hard to get to.
Frederick Chopin's grave.