Eiffel Tower and a bunch of sites.

Some tower that we found...supposedly it is famous...so we took some pictures




It's not as tall as it looks




Pompidou




Notre-Dame



Rosary window in Notre Dame


We had a free day on Monday and we went to that one famous tower we saw, the Eiffel Tower or something like that. he he he. It was really cool. Maryam, Winnie, and I sat there and sketched for a while. People kept looking over our shoulders to see our sketches. Two separate groups of Chinese people came over and they loved Maryam's and Winnie's sketches, because theirs were more like drawings than sketches, and they gave me a pity that's nice. The second group saw mine first and were like that's nice, ooh, and then they saw winnie's and got more excited, and then the saw Maryam's and got way excited and were oohing and ahhing. It made me laugh. The more funny part was that they took pictures of us sketching. And one lady video taped us sketching. So weird.

We then went to the Pompidu which has these covered escalators on the out side of the building. The Pompidu is an electronic library and museum and it has a cool industrial design. We then went to Sainte-Chapelle cathedral, it was small and kind of plain and kind of boring. Then we hit Notre Dame. The outside is amazing and I love the flying buttresses. Once we went inside though, it mostly looked like every other cathedral we've seen. I think it was mostly because we were starving because it was about 5:30 pm and we had only eaten breakfast.

We went to this restaurant and I got this quiche thing, but Maryam ordered a starter of Mussels and they were actually pretty good and Winnie and I helped her eat them. Then for the main course she ordered salmon which was good but Winnie ordered octopus. It was skewered and it was grilled in spices. I was brave enough to try one and I actually liked it! I had swore that I would never eat octopus but I did. I think if it would have been slimy I wouldn't have tried it. It was cooked really well and it was only a little chewy. The spices were way good.