Walking, Walking, Eating, and More Walking

Today seemed very long and very cool. We started of the day at 9:00, and we were all super tired from jet lag. We went to a baker down the road and we got through ordering without our waiter turning to english or her having to point wildly or us point wildly at something we wanted! Yay! Then, we got on the Metro. The thing about the Metro is that there is a ton of people, and most stations and trains are pretty dirty. However, the ticket system is awesome. If you enter the Metro system by going into a station and buying a ticket, then you can go anywhere and get on as many trains as you want until you leave one of the stations. So we rode one train, then transferred to another, and then voila! We popped out at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame was awesome. The line was extremely long, but it moved fairly quickly. First of all, the outside was super cool. The gargoyles were funny and some of them scary and the architecture was a different style, but the inside was really cool. Probably the best thing about it was the stained glass. It had stained glass all around on every single wall. So we spent some time in there and then when I thought we would go somewhere else, I saw a sign. It said to go into a different line to get to the roof. We walked outside and looked at the line because that seemed really fun, and the line was huge, and was not going anywhere. :( We ate lunch and decided what to do next. After discussing over whether or not to go inside, we decided that we could spend about an hour in line because going on the roof of Notre Dame outweighed every negative aspect. We got in line and slowly started moving, then finally, we reached the front!

So our leader person thingy took us into this stairwell. There were about four hundred steps and three levels. We did finally reach the top and the view was unbelievable. You could see the cathedral in a cool way form above, and I won't even mention the view of all of Paris. The scariest part was going down. We had to descend the same steep spiraling skinny steps that we went up. After that, we left Notre Dame.

Looking down on Notre Dame cathedral from the very top of one of the bell towers.

View from the top looking out over Paris.

View from a different side of the roof.

We had an audio walking tour and it took us over the Seine River and into a little part of Paris. We went through a little park, a small little bookstore, and by the time we got to another really cool church, it had closed because it was late. We probably only walked about 4 miles, but it seemed like a lot with the shoes and jet lag. I mean, we did walk all day. We went to dinner at a restaurant in that area and took the Metro back to our hotel. Yeah, umm, you probably didn't think to check what time I posted this but it is 1:00 here and I'm not even tired. Wonderful, thank you, Paris. :)

Some memorial that I can't remember the name of.

Looking down the main aisle.

Stained glass from Notre Dame, it was even prettier up close.

The smallest house/apartment in Paris.

A really cool street. Pretty much all streets in Paris are like this.

(For some reason, I couldn't move those last pictures up.) A model of the entire cathedral.