Monday - Week 2

After class, we had a scavenger hunt to find things in Montmartre area of Paris (around the Sacre Coeur to the north) This is a really fun part of town. There were 15 questions and 9 of us...so we thought team work was needed and divided them up between us to meet later to collaborate. Good plan to save a lot of time. There is some weird things in Paris we found out. Also there is a big painting square with many painters painting live and you can buy their pictures. There are some really good ones, and I might go back to get one. After meeting back up with the whole group, a few of us went inside the Sacre Coeur. No pictures allowed inside. It was nice, but nothing like any of the older gothic churches. We went up to the top, with very narrow spiral staircases. Getting to about the roof level, we had to go outside up and over the roof (on stairs) to get to the second set of spiral staircase to get to the top. It was a great view. Coming back down, we went underground to the crypt to see some of the church's collections. They had a lot of gold hearts (sacre couer means sacred heart). There was also another sculpture of St. Denis carrying his head, similar to the one we found earlier on the scavenger hunt. After we got done we wandered around over to Saint chappel to find it closed. Another Day.

Day 8 - Monday