Paris!

Squishy!

Rawwwrr

Our first real view of Paris was at the Sacre Coeur church that overlooks most of the city. On our first day we hiked up to the church and we got our first good look at the Eiffel Tower. After looking at the church we drove to the Arc De Triomphe taking the scenic route up the Champs De Elysies which is a street much like Robson street with overpriced clothes and stores.  Since the Arc was on a round-a-bout we got a good look at it by just driving around and a around it over and over again. After that we drove to the Notre Dame church which is famous because of the story of the hunch back of Notre Dame. Also another interesting thing about the church is that the front and back of the church follow a different style though both sides are equally magnificent. The last but not least thing we saw that day was the….Eiffel tower! We considered going up to the top but after seeing the line and the price to do so we just abandoned that idea so we settled at just looking at it while eating cake and taking pictures. I’d say pictures of the Eiffel Tower are very deceiving of its actual size and it is atruly monumental tower in real life.

In our time in Paris we generally didn’t go to anything that involved a big line up and if the internet told us that there would be one we just woke up really early to beat the lineup. But sadly this time the line beat us. It beat us so badly, we ended up waiting in one for three and a half hours, three and a half hours!!! This infamous line that beat us, the Anthony family, was for the Catacombs of Paris. I think the only other time ever that we waited in a line for over ten minutes was for Space Mountain or Small World at Disney World. But don’t worry those three and a half hours were not in vain. Ninety steps under Paris there are the bones of six million people that mainly consisted of femurs and skulls along the walls of the catacombs laid out in different patterns. The bones are from the inhabitants of Paris from 1786 to 1814. But before the catacombs were used for keeping the dead Parisians they were used as quarries for the construction of houses and mansions in Paris. The quarries were finally abandoned because of the many cave-ins causing damage to the streets and people above. Overall I’d say the line up was pretty much worth the wait and I’d recommend going to it if you ever go to Paris one day.