Paris happenings: by Melody

This update is brought to you by my seastar. A message that she wrote about her first overseas adventures aka what we did in Paris:

I'm emailing from WALES, and I just got back from PARIS!!!!

This is crazy!
 

I'm just going to type a list of what all we did in Paris because it is too much to tell about in an email.  We hardly slept from the time I met Heather in London til the time we got to her house the night before last.

met Heather in London and took Eurostar train to Paris
  

drank much espresso and ate many chocolate croissants
  

visited Notre Dame Cathedral - saw the gargoyles and crown of thorns and all those stained glass windows - beautiful  

bought a used C.S. Lewis novel at Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore

ate crepes on the Seine River

drank more espresso at Cafe de Flore

visited St. Sulpice Cathedral - yup, the one from the Da Vinci Code

rested in Jardin de Luxenburg

ate dinner in the Montparnesse neighborhood

visited the Louvre - saw a bunch of cool stuff including the winged victory statue, Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Italian sculpture room <- SOOO beautiful

got rained on in the Jardin de Tuileries (sculpture garden in front of Louvre)

visited Arc de Triomphe - refused to take the tour because I was exhausted at this point

walked all the way down the Ave des Champs Elysees

rode an elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower

visited the Montmartre neighborhood

saw lots of really old parks, buildings, and cathedrals

switched to cappuccinos

visited this old Celtic church

heard some nuns sing in French in the Secre Coeur

walked down Clichy Blvd (thought about Henry Miller)

saw Moulin Rouge

back to the Eurostar station and then to Heather's house where we went to sleep until 1:00 in the afternoon the next day.

Yesterday we took it easy, went to the beach, visited Heather's school, and a little town next to Swansea called Mumbles. Having a great time!