Oh The Places We’ll Go

Ok so here we go…..while i may not be the writer-extraordinaire that Catherine is, I’ll do my best. So to summarize the previous post, it took ALL DAY to get to Paris. We left Barcelona where we had an awesome time and took a train to Montpeiller where we waited about 4 hours until we left for Lyon.

Montpeiller was nice as it was right on the coast of France and the weather was decent. The entire 4 hours we were there was spent sitting on a bench in the train station that smelled like a huge group of homeless guys peed near our seats. Why we sat there escapes me! Not only that but this weird old French guy kept walking past us every 5 minutes or so, grunting loudly and smelling of vomit. He looked like he was having the hardest time walking around and eventually thought it would be nice to come sit right next to me while Catherine was up checking the Departure Boards. AWESOME! The real icing on my cake right there.

So we leave Montpeiller to go to Lyon and then Paris. We arrive in Paris around 12:30 and make it to the hostel around 1:00. The Metro system here is really nice since you can take it pretty much anywhere. Why would anyone own a car here? Really? You dont need one at all. You could easily live on the outskirts of Paris and take the Metro into the city any time you wanted.

So Saturday we saw the Notre Dame cathedral, and it was epic. You walk up to this thing and you just look at all the detail they put into this church and you’re in shock at how beautiful it is. You wonder how someone could think up a design like they did. Its amazing. I actually expected it to be a bit bigger just from seeing it in movies and such but it was still amazing. The inside of the cathedral was even better with all the stained glass windows and the Mass going on at the time. It was really cool.

We spent the rest of the day walking from the Notre Dame to the Louvre to take pictures, and then on to the Eiffel Tower to see it as the sun set. At night it lights up blue! We took a million pictures…..probably too many but oh well. We didnt do much else since Catherine didnt get out of bed until 1:00 since she is sick. She’s been coughing and sneezing ever since we got here. On the train ride from Lyon to Paris she slept on the seat-back tray and woke up in a pool of snot and was like “meh, screw it…..whatever.” GROSS!

Today was the Louvre Museum and it was HUGE! We walked so much it was rediculous. We saw quite a few famous works of art. We saw the Code of Hammurabi, The Dying Slave by Michelangelo, Venus de Milo, and of course the Mona Lisa. All of the art was amazing.

We are on our way to Disneyland Paris and will update when we are done!

Peace

-Thomas