Here we go!

The final full day here in Paree!  Boy, the whole trip here has been amazing from going to the top of the Eiffel Tower to figuring out the metro (I personally still get confused).  If you’ve read the first blog about the walking tour then you’d know just how many sights we saw the first day, and it really set precedence of what Paris has to offer the student traveling abroad.  We got to go to the Louvre, Notre Dame, and on the plus side while here there’s been a bread fair right in front Notre Dame, and we visited a bunch of other cathedrals that you may have heard about from Lindsay’s post.

Then there’s today.  The day we realize will most likely be, the last day most of us will ever see each other.  Today was also the last day for us to accomplish some final tasks.  For example a few of us went to the catacombs of Paris which houses countless remains of people who lived in Paris.  Walk down 130 spiral staircase steps.  The reason for the catacombs was to make more land available for the building and the expansion of Paris.  That land was the cemeteries.  There’s a solemn sadness in there when you look at the bones and consider the time some of them are from (1700s – 1800s) which were a turbulent time for France.  Then to be removed from their resting place, and dumped in a old quarry.  Not to mention when you look at some skulls there appear to pickaxe and musket wounds.  Climb 83 steps up a narrow spiral staircase and HELLO sunlight and gift shop.

Then it was lunch time and we filled our stomachs with crepes.  I had what was called La Western, which contained an egg, salted and seasoned ham (like spiral ham), potatoes, a type of creamy cheese all packed in a crepe.  10/10 would eat again.

With this ends my trip in Paris.  Bon voyage!