Day 6: Its the weekend!

Well I had a great day in Paris today, I had class for 2 hours today and after that I was free! I had lunch with some IES friends at a yummy cafe close to IES and than we went to the Catacombes (the entrance to which is right near IES). They were really interesting, very dark and cold and wet. It would be a great place to set up a haunted house. Anyways, the Catacombes is where a bunch of bones from church graves were moved to in the 1700s ( I believe), and its very interesting and pretty in its morbid way (sometimes the bones make designes, often times crosses, but there is a heart made out of skulls). We were in the Catacombes for about an hour and a half to two hours, there was lots of stuff to see and there were lots of interesting quotes engraved on the wall about death, it was very morbid but definatly something to reflect upon. I was irritated because my camara couldn't take good pictures (you can't use a flash), but my friend's camara did so I will post those on facebook or piccasa when I get them from him. When we exited the Catacombes we had no idea where we were because the entrance was definatly not in the same space, so we just wandered around for a while before we realised were were close to IES but we sill didn't know exactly where. We did see a pretty church though and decided to go in it, which was really nice because it was very peacefull inside which was a nice change and was very refreshing after the Catacombes. After the church we decided to go to le jardain de luxembourge which is a very beautiful garden near Saint-michel that the parisians love. We walked around there and sat down and read and people watched for a while, it was absolutly beautiful there. Than we walked to Saint-michel, on the way there we saw the Parthanon and La Sorbonne. It was really cool to see the "old paris" the buildings are even prettier than the rest of paris (which is saying something), and they have tons of beautiful historic buildings that we saw like Notre Dame and La Palais de la Justice. We crossed over le Seine and kept walking for a while, the area is really beautiful and old but it is also more touristy than other areas in a not so pleasant way, there are much more neon signs, pizza huts, Macdos (mac donalds), and even a KFC so it takes away from the old romantic atmoshpere. It was still nice though, we had a good dinner at a very american friendly restaurant there (the entire menu was both in french and english) and all the entrees came with sides of fries, so it was not as good as more french places, but it was a good price and still fairly tasty. We were of course speaking in french, and there was a british couple sitting at the table next to us that we ended up talking to at the end of the meal, and they thought that we were french-canadian which we found rather amusing. They were a very funny couple and we had a long converstaion with them, they asked us about who is going to visit us and I mentioned that my boyfriend is because he can fly for free, the husband decided that ment i must be dating superman, and started doing really big flying motions with his hands, it was quite funny and I am suspicious that they were a bit drunk (they had finished a bottle of wine between the two of them). After dinner I went back to my appartment and got over my fear of taking the metro when it is dark out. Anyways, it was a very good day filled with lots of adventures and I feel like I got to see much more of Paris. I can't wait until tomorrow when I get to see even more!