What the Crepe

Paris weather needs to make up its mind.   So fickle.

I went to the heart of Paris today.  Finally, right?  I made my way on the Metro (and bought too many tickets in the process) to Notre Dame.   And since I know you're going to ask, yes I did have "God help the outcasts" stuck in my head the whole time.   There was a service going on, yet the hallways around the main servicey area were totally packed with tourists like moi.  I felt a little bit bad..  It must be distracting for people trying to attend Mass to have all these people walking around inside, taking pictures and such.   But c'est la vie en Paris.  (dans Paris?   a la Paris?)    The stained glass windows are freaking amazing..  You know,  just imagining the people building the cathedral, the ingenuity it took to build something like that with the limited tools they had - amazing.    I feel like the human race has become so architecturally lazy these days.

I hopped on a red double-decker tour bus (another checkmark on SarahBudge's list-of-things-I-must-do!) and can I just say that Paris looks a whole lot less dirty from the top of an open-air tour bus?  :-D   The sun even made a few appearances!     The obelisk in the Place du Concord = 3,000+ years old.  Holy crap!!  Saw the sites, took the photos, you know the story.   It started getting even more windy and chilly, so I hopped off the bus, got a crepe (yay!) and hopped back on - this time on the lower level, out of the wind...    We drove through lots of amazing places, drove over the tunnel where Princess Diana died (there were some bouquets of flowers laid down in the area, even) and just made our way around.  It was nice, especially since I wasn't walking too much.  Mister Blister went away, but Cranky Ankle has reared his ugly head.   Hooray painkillers!  :-D

Let's take a moment to remark on the Paris metro system.  It's huge, and can get you anywhere.   But holy crap, it's nuts!   I'm sure it all makes sense once you've studied it out and remember where everything goes...  but, there are like 15 different metro lines, all different colors, different numbers of the same color, that go one direction and then suddenly become another number.. Definitely more difficult than the London tube system.  But seriously, you can get anywhere and everywhere on the metro.  It's crazyawesome. 

I went up to Sacre Coeur again this evening.  Don't judge.    I wanted to snap a few shots of Le Tour d'Eiffel at night with it all lit up since my camera was dead the other night..

You know, Paris overall has been kinda chilly, rude, unfriendly and a little smelly - but even if I hadn't had other awesome experiences here (which I totally have - I don't want it to sound like Paris sucks!) it would all be 100% worth it, just to see the Eiffel Tower.


And the souvenir shops here are SO much cooler than the ones in London.  Just sayin'.




Still left to do:
-Musee d'Orsay (added to the list, as author previously did not know that d'Orsay houses the biggest collection of Impressionist paintings, ie Cezanne, Monet, Manet, etc...  Hello, boys!)
  ---try not to spend more than 4 hours in this museum..
-The Louvre?
-Eat another crepe
-Re-pack and figure out how the heck to get to this totally random airport I'm flying from on Tuesday..


In closing,.. Ma famille me manque.