Day 4 - Thursday - Relaxing Day

After class today, the girls wanted to go shopping! I was soo...not...excited for that. Fortunately Kim didn't want to go either, so we took a nice relaxing trip to the Rodin museum and back to les Invalides. Rodin Museum was tres cool. First it had an exhibit of chinese art, which i couldn't take pictures of. There was a lot of nude art, and some of it rather vulgar. But there was a giant van Gogh which was awesome. Then we went out to the gardes where there were Rodin sculputures. First the Thinker, who was, yes, still thinking about something. And the roses across the who garded were beautiful. Huge bronze and marble sculptures everwhere. Adam & Eve, and the Gates of Hell. The garden area was nice too because it wasn't a huge bustling city. Then we went inside the center building to see more sculptures. Beautiful ones everywhere, including the famous Kiss.
Kim hadn't gone to Les Invalides yet, and I didn't mind seeing more of it, so we went next door to it. I didn't look up behind the alter going into the crypt yesterday, so I took a picture of it. I saw the relief representing the Napoleonic code too. We found our way into the actual church part too. I talked to Madame de Richemont last night and she told me she actually got married here! So I had to find my way in. Behind a huge door that just said push I found it. You could smell the flowers from a wedding sometime before. There were guys getting equipment and chairs ready for another; and another guy tuning the piano. This church alone was magnificant. The pipe organ was huge too.
After that we didn't know what we wanted to do, so we rode the bus around so we could just see the city. We just got off when we got tired. I saw the opera house, where the phantom (still) lives. Well it was just water in the sewer that made noise, but i think he is still there haha. We walked around the area where we got off and saw the Trinity Church. I made sure to take a picture of the sign so I could rmember what it was. About that time, Bridget and Jess called asking if we wanted to go to dinner. So we met up and found a cafe, then wanted to go to the Eiffel Tower at dusk to see the city lights. We waited about 1/2 hour in line, just to get to the front to see a sign that said Summit Fermme. (top closed). well dang. We didn't want to go up to not go up the whole way, so another day I guess. They closed it because there were a few sprinkles, from what looked barely enough to call a cloud. dang french. So we waited for the lights to come on and sparkle for a while, then went up to Sacre Coeur for the rest of the night before heading home to bed. Early day in the morning.

Day 4