Saturday: Part 3 and Sunday morning (the end)

Eating lunch on the Seine

A courthouse?

The modern art museum. It's built from the inside out, so the pipes you see are actually the pipes that normally go inside the walls. It's a cool concept, I think (though it is interesting, it is not very pretty).

We went to see the lights at night and helped some lost US soldiers based in Germany find the Eiffel tower too. They were very glad to have someone who spoke English and knew their way around help them!/I don't know if it is legal or now, but along the canal in Paris there are many people (probably homeless) who camp out along the bank. It seems like a very permanent camp, with people chatting over coffee in the morning after they come out of their tents. It's a big contrast from the style of life that the movies portray of Paris.

Saturday: Part 2

Park in front of the Louvre. Whitney in front of the Louvre.



Walking along the river Seine, still by the Louvre.

Still (it's a huugggee palace, more than a city block). On the right is the church that one of the kings built because the Notre Dame wasn't good enough for him. He had stained glass from the top to the bottom of the building, which fell in several times and shattered because the glass was too heavy for the little support the building and panes offered.

Notre Dame



These sculptures are outside the Notre Dame, on the door frames and everywhere. Whitney told me that they used to be painted bright colors, but that it wore off. In the Notre Dame at Amiens, where she studied, they use special lights to relect off the paint and bring out whatever residue of color there is left.

Saturday Part 1

Me in front of a huge random arch that you can go up in (the bottom part is stairs)/ Statue called La Defense de Paris (I don't think that it's famous)

French soldiers and their berets/Whitney's thumb (and the statue of the thumb, not hers)

Me and the giant thumb!!!/ random fountain in a park

Sculture Lumineuse: in which you're not allowed to swim...it's posted/ Arc de Triomphe (one thing Paris is really proud of)

Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Paris has really good vanilla ice cream mmmmm/ fountain in square right before the Louvre

Obelisk with Egyptian symbols/Champs du Élysées where we walked all of this morning (all the other sights are on this really really long street) You can see three archs walking from one end to the other (the white modern one, Arc de Triomphe, and one closer to the Louvre)

Paris: Day One am

Café Indiana...just had to take a picture. To the right is the "I love you" wall. If you make it bigger, you can read "I love you" in as many languages as you understand and more!

View from Montmatre (can see where I am in the pictures below).

Basilica de Sacré Coeur

Someone playing harp in Montmatre and Whitney soaking up the sun in the park where we ate lunch. Sandwich bought from a small shop, crossaint filled with chocolate and Orangina, a soft drink made from orange and tangerines that actually has pulp (and tastes good too). It's from French Algeria and is in Europe, apparently, but I've only seen it in Paris.

Fountain in the park in which we ate lunch. I think it's about Marco Polo (globe in middle) or something.

Paris: Day One pm

After lunch we went to a cementary in which Jim Morrison is buried (see tomb). It was really pretty inside, and people were reading, walking around, like it's a park.

Crematorium

Ópera



Some guys dancing and not asking for money. This merited a picture.

So named for the gift of the torch from the US. Also where Princess Diana crashed (in the tunnel below).

People leave things in memory of Princess Diana below the torch.

Moulin Rouge (we ate supper above about three blocks away in a creperia) The street of Moulin Rouge is not a good place to be at night. We walked really fast, luckily the metro is really close. Quick is the French version of McDonalds.