Paris Sights

The night was interesting!   As I mentioned, we are in the middle of lots of activity.  The club directly across and one level down on the street from us that is open until 4AM.   Half of their activity is outside on the street.   The street below is also under construction and there are metal sheets lining the walking path.  Every step a person makes echoes through the street and into our open windows.   C’est la Vie!   We have sights to explore in this city!  

We wandered toward the river to find a café.  Cafés Richard.  It was a beautiful breakfast!  Afterward, we walked and walked.  We saw the reconstruction underway at Notre Dame, listened to a jazz band on a bridge, stopped for another coffee, visited a few bridges, and watched people.  It’s so full of activity of course!  People were sitting all along the river enjoying their lunch and visiting with friends.   

 

Our tickets to the Louvre were at 2:00 so we made our way back away from the River, purchased ham and cheese sandwiches and sat on the steps at the Louvre before going inside.  I don’t know that anything really stood out as the best items we saw in the museum but just to visit this overwhelmingly stocked museum.  I don’t know if it’s the largest in the world but if you took three seconds to see every item in the Louvre, it would take 9 days and nights to see everything.  Our last stop at close to three hours was the Mona Lisa.  

Our next event wasn’t until 9:45 so we found a café of course!  This one was in such a busy area that it was a little too much as far as the people sitting so closely to us.  The snack was amazing though.   

We went on a shopping search for a bag store that didn’t work out.  I think we did get a little rest time back at the room after that.  Later in the evening we took a Seine river boat cruise to see the lights.  It really is magical!  It was actually still light but the sun was setting.  When we passed the Eiffel Tower just before turning around I thought we wouldn’t be able to see it lighted.  Just as the boat was turning to go back in the direction we came, the tower began to light up.  The rest of the journey is just got darker and the lights were amazing!  We exited the boat and police after police came down the street!  The officers lined the bridge near us and stood looking over with big guns!  We never saw anything going no fortunately but quickly exited the area.  A little more night life wandering and then we went back to our noisy room.