Today was amazing.We woke up on the later side after some great and much needed sleep. Grace slept on the floor of the airport before coming here because of a big storm. We slept and then woke up and headed out. Got breakfast at a cafe close by and then headed for the catacombs. The line was super long because of it being Halloween so we waked to a close by cemetery where we saw Samuel becketts grave. I kind if hate his stuff though so that was lame that he was the only famous person I actually recognized there. Then we went to the Notre dam cathedral. Got a little turned around finding it. We saw the palace of justice and conciergerie buildings.
After Notre dame we got lunch at a cafe I had lasagna and grace had soup. Then we went and walked around past a bridge with a cool little band performing on it until we found the louvre seeing some cool buildings/ public parts/ church buildings. We passed the hotel de ville and some bridges and walked along the Seine river. Walked in the louvre, and saw the glass pyramid.
We went to the Italian paintings section and saw the Mona Lisa, ( both kind of unimpressed) I didn't know nearly as many painting as I thought I would with it being the louvre. Saw the Spanish paintings and some sculptures as well. Then we went and found a Starbucks in the main area of the louvre. It was heavenly and both of ours first Starbucks since Oregon. We then walked through the gift shop and past the postcards from each section and based on what we saw decided to go to the Egyptian part. It was so awesome! We saw a mummy and mummy cats and really old stuff over 6000 years old, ancient hieroglyphics and everything! It was awesome. Took a selfie in a room tomb thing of heiroglyphics. Then we had to leave because it was 6 and closing so we left. It was dark out so we took pictures of it lot up. We also got a picture with some Cambodian Buddhist monks randomly. They wanted a picture with us after they asked if they could take out picture.
Then we went and walked through the Tulleries Gardens towards the main road and under a big arc but not the arc du triumphe. The road was the champs élysées with the real arc du triomphe! We saw it but didn't go down it. Then we took the metro toward where we thought the lock bridge/ lovers bridge was. We went into a shop to ask if we were close and found locks we could buy. I bought one and wrote Thad and Kacy on it. With keys. We went and found the bridge. I counted 25 rungs (day of anniversary) and then went half way down and locked the lock. :-) Always wanted to go to the lock bridge. It is gorgeous!
Then we went to a Thai restaurant to get dinner. It was really good and not too expensive. Then we went and bought breakfast for tomorrow and a bottle of wine from a carrefour. Then we took that and walked some more through a really lively part of the city. We saw a cool spray paint artist. Then we got ice cream at a place and headed back to the hotel where we internetted and realized we hadn't eaten any candy on Halloween but did see lots of halloweeny stuff. I found a gummy smurf in my bag and we split it. We laughed. I booked our wine tasting tomorrow for 3o clock. We are really having a blast here. Grace makes a really great travel buddy too! No complaints here!
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