Wednesday, 7 March 2012

On Monday, I took the train bright and early with Jannine and William into the city.  I went to the Louvre Museum, and spent at least 4 hours there, there is way too much to see in that museum.  Naturally I had to go and see the Mona Lisa, and the Venus de Milo, but I think my favourite part was the Ancient Egypt part.  There were so many sweet sarcophagus' and tombs.  Made me wish I had lived back then so I could have had one of them.  After the Louvre, I walked down to the Notre Dame Cathedral.  It is such a beautiful church and there is so much history to it. I didn't have a chance to climb to the top of the bell towers, but that was ok, the inside of the church was beautiful enough. When we got home I had to pack again.
Tuesday was another early morning, and this time I brought all my stuff into Paris with me.  I left it at Jannine's office and took off. I went to the Trocadero Aquarium, which was pretty sweet. They had some grey tip reef sharks, nurse sharks, zebra sharks, and grey sharks. The one thing I was disappointed with there was the "touch basin".  At other aquariums that I've been to, in the touch pool they've had really cool creatures, like skates, or crabs. However, in Paris it was a koi pond, like you'd see at the Mandarin restaurant or something. Other than that though, it was pretty good.  After the aquarium, I went and walked up and down the Champs-Elysees.  Every single store was out of my budget, but it was really cool walking into stores like Cartier or Louis Vutton and just seeing everything.  I will admit, however, that window shopping isn't as much fun by yourself.  After that I went back to Jannine's office and waited until she was done work, and then we went to the train station.  I caught an overnight train from Paris to Barcelona.  There was a really annoying woman in my section, her phone kept going off like every 2 hours when we were sleeping, and she would answer and was pretty much yelling into her phone. I was not impressed. However, I'm in Barcelona now, and just trying to decide what to do, whether I want to go to the beach today or tomorrow.

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