We started off early with Sainte Chapelle, which is a beautiful chapel from roughly a millennia ago that still retains 2/3 of its original stained glass windows. Take a gander:
We can all just collectively pretend that any photo does it justice. After that we headed to Notre Dame, which brought back every singe childhood memory of the Disney Classic. The bells rang, the line moved us quickly out of the wind, and we got to see some of an authentic French mass inside while we walked through.
Then began our grand tour of museums. By which I mean two. First was the Musee d'Orsay, which used to be an old train station and how holds a TON (probably literally) of impressive art. Then we went to the Musee de l'Orangerie, which had 8 of Monet's beautiful water lily paintings. We finished up the day by seeing the Eiffel Tower all lit up from atop the Arc de Triomphe.
And I finally bought some gloves to combat the unusually cold Paris winds!
But best of all, even though the wifi connection was awful, I got to skype with my wonderful family for a little bit. They're the best :)
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