A marathon day in Paris! Saturday, July 3rd

We had amazing weather the entire time we were in London & then woke up to rain in Paris. But it didn't slow us down at all (except maybe to buy umbrellas)!

Our first stop was Notre Dame Cathedral! Some people (not to mention any names (zack)) spent a little more time looking for Quasimodo than he should have!

By the Bell inside the tower!

Daniel, Jessica, Brad, Janie, Georgy, Zack, Cassidy, Chris, Thomas, John, Matthew, Evan, Spencer, Elaine & Harold

Inside the cathedral!



Walking over the Seine River!



Evan & Zack getting a crepe in the Latin Quarter! I mean it doesn't get much better than this.





Outside theMuseum D'Orsay! We were able to see work by all of the famous Impressionist artist's in here.

Next we headed to the Rodin Museum, where the guys were all inspired by Rodin's "The Thinker!"

So inspired that I caught boy's "Thinking" the rest of the day!
Cassidy & Matthew

Brad & Cindi were inspired by Rodin's, "The Kiss"

And after 9 straight hours of sightseeing it seemed fitting to take a little break at, "The Gates of Hell!"

After we left the Rodin we were walking down the street and glanced over and saw the Eifell Tower, that was just too cool to not stop for a picture!

The night we arrived in Paris, Harold had his wallet stolen from a buttoned up pocket within about 30 minutes of us arriving. Getting on the train on the way to the Rodin museum I was trapped by 3 gypsies trying to force me to buy a bracelet (or so I thought). While I was being distracted and trying to get away from them, one of the gypsies had casually put her bag over mine and had her hand in my purse. Daniel & Cassidy were watching and saw what they were doing. Daniel grabbed the girls hand out of my bag and told her to stop (maybe a little more colorfully than that) and the girls disappeared. I was so lucky because I had 400 euros (about 500 dollars) in my wallet right on top inside my purse! So here we are reinacting the heroics of Daniel & Cassidy, with Matthew starring as the gypsy!

Next we decided to go on the "Sewer Tour." It helped a lot if you kept your nose covered and breathed through your mouth! In the play Les Miserables, that we saw in London, Jean Val Jean saves Marius by escaping through the sewers in Paris, so we thought we needed to go see where that took place!

Outside with the sign "Visit the Sewers of Paris," haha, for some reason that just made me laugh!

And even 3 hours later, guys still "Thinking!"

And FINALLY we visited the "Arch de Triomphe"

And once again hiked to the top, for some reason they don't believe in elevators here!