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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Yesterday's Blog

Yesterday, I couldn't blog because the wifi had magically disappeared. But poof! It's back tonight! I'll probably do two blogs: one for yesterday and one for today.This will be yesterday's blog (as you can see from my creative title.)

So! First, we got up just a little bit later than the day before. We ate brunch at a cafe that looked out onto a busy street corner. We started off by finishing an audio tour that we had on our phones. We visited the Saint Chapelle Church. It had tons of beautiful stained glass and was just awesome all together. There was a restoration project going on where they cleaned and restored the stained glass. Then, we went into the Conciergerie. The Conciergerie is a big building where they used to hold prisoners. It's where Marie Antoinette was held until her death.  It was very interesting and just a little creepy at the same time. The tour ended at a bridge across the Seine River and from there we headed towards d'Orsay Musee. There must be about 20 bridges connecting the island to the main land and they are all very different. On the way, we bought a lock to put on the bridge and wrote all of our names on it. (it's a tradition. There are thousands of locks on one of the bridges.) We got three keys that fit the lock with it. We are keeping one, throwing one in the river, which is what I think most people do, but we don't know what to do with the third. Got any ideas?


After a change of plans, we went to the crypt underneath Notre Dame. It had ruins of the old Paris Wall from hundreds of years ago. There were doorways and stairs and places where watch towers went. When that closed we took the Metro over to the Champs Élysées. The street was extremely busy until the Police closed down one side because of the preparation of the Tour de France, which was good for us!

We spent a few hours at a cafe (where the lady next to us had three cigarettes which blew right into our faces)  and then went to the Arc de Triomphe and climbed the stairs up to the top. The view was beautiful, and while we were up there, the lights to the Eiffel Tower came on and it was amazing. Right when the stars were about to pop out, a man came and told us that it was closing and we had all better head on down stairs. We took the Metro back to our hotel and got went almost straight to bed, that is, after being very frustrated that we couldn't connect to wifi.

I can't post any pictures because it is too late and uploading photos takes for-ev-er. I might do a post of just photos in the next few days if I can get them to upload.

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