tourist season

I had the ultimate tourist day today and it was fab. Well first last night was even more fab. Me and a bunch of friends from my program met on a beautiful bridge to watch the sunset, and then sat along the river drinking wine and watching many boats go by! Perfect Paris night.

so wow, that's beautiful

It was so fun! I'm definitely going to be going through withdrawals from the people in my program after returning home :( But today I started by going to the Catacombs of Paris! Which is exactly what it sounds like..catacombs. Super creepy and super awesome. 

it's hard to see but this is dated in the 1700s

It was really cool. We had to wait about an hour and a half to go inside, because they can only let 200 people in at a time. But it was worth it. It took about an hour to walk through. After that, I went to the top of Notre Dame!!! This is a pretty big deal since I have a fear of heights, but I stayed strong and it was well worth it. Luckily the way up was an enclosed spiral staircase so I couldn't see how high up we were until reaching the top. But what really made it hard was climbing stairs for ten minutes. Everyone was panting by the top. 

There was also this thick wire fencing around and above us to hold everyone in!

view from the front

back

side: Sacre-Coeur in the distance

 So first we got to go to the middle section between the two towers of Notre Dame, then we got to go even higher to the top of one of the towers. Pretty cool! Something else that made this day so great was that we got to enter both the Catacombs and Notre Dame for free because of our student museum pass.

After Notre Dame we walked over to this very famous bookshop called Shakespeare and Company. It was adorable.

And I found something great inside...

:)