Day 11 - Paris

We leave Paris all too soon. Tonight is our last night, and we have thoroughly enjoyed our time here. Last night we headed over to the Sacre Coeur, and th e views of Paris were amazing. The area around there was wonderful too; lots of boutiques and small restaurants. We found a café to eat at, and Mandy made a couple of friends. The manager offered to sell our server to her, but the 200 euro price tag was a little too much for Mandy. So she settled for a couple of pictures with him. They tried to convince me and Matt to leave her there, but we knew she’d never find the hotel on her own, so we forced her to leave with us.
Today we went to the Louvre, for the third time. Today was the first time we actually got to go inside (fyi, the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays). The Louvre is amazing. I wish I knew more about art to really be able to appreciate all the pieces we saw, but it was a great experience regardless. It’s amazing that these pieces were created hundreds, some thousands, of years ago, and they’ve been preserved so well. We saw the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, The Wedding Feast at Cana, the Code of Hammurabi, and lots more. Like I said, it was quite amazing.
We’ve had incredible weather in Paris, but the rain finally caught up with us today. We tried to walk through it some, but it left us pretty cold. We made it to a huge mall, but it was so claustrophobic that it sent us running. We did see the line to Louis Vutton, but Mandy and I decided we’d wait till our next trip to Paris to buy something there!
On to Rome!!


The view from Sacre Coeur.

Moulin Rouge!
Mandy and her Bangladeshi husband.

Matt and I at the Louvre.

The Wedding Feast at Cana

The Venus de Milo

The Code of Hammurabi

The Mona Lisa.