Christmas

We had a really fun day, and I'm not going to bore you with my gifts and all, but it was really cool.

Christmas Eve

We had a scavenger hunt today. We were given clues and then had to navigate our way through the metro for nine "missions". At the end of each, we got a little reward. It was really fun.

Eleventh Day

We did more Christmas shopping today, and we also went to Sacre Coeur. That's a church from around the 1700's. It wasn't as depressing as Notre Dame. It had a lot more gold tiling, and not as many paintings, but more mosaics.

Tenth Day

We went Christmas shopping for everyone today, so obviously I can't say much, but we saw some really cool stuff.

Eighth Day

Today we visited a Christmas market. There was everything there, from wine, to donuts, to dolls, to feathered leg warmers. Yes, I did say feathered. It was so cool. We walked around for awhile, and then went home.

Ninth Day

Today we went to the Catacombs. The messages they carved on the stones did not exactly make you want to keep on going. The message at the entrance was: "Halt. Here is the empire of the dead." And, "Impious mortals stand no chance." etc.

The Catacombs are a place where the walls are stacked with, like, 6x6x6 ft. It was started because a graveyard was causing disease, and so the people took all the bones out and made them decorative.

Here are some pictures...

Looking up at the arches as you head down...

A photo of dead people, half rotted

See above...

This says "Stop! Here is the Empire of the Dead!"

Skulls, bones, and bones.

A model of a church or something.

Oh, yeah... More bones!

First the heads, then the legs... Wait, something isn't right here.

Tortured souls, screaming in agony. Really gives you a nice warm and fuzzy feeling inside,  doesn't it?

Caption.

A huge tube-ish thing. Made of bones, of course.

More ceiling photos.

Sixth Day

We went to the Air and Space museum today, and we got to go in an actual Boeing 747. It was huge!! We saw the Concord, and a bunch of untested prototypes. We got to fly a plane (on the computer of course...) and I was the only one who could successfully land the pane... And I only crashed one (or two, or three, or four) time...s. Then we went to the Louvre, and saw the Mona Lisa. A bunch of other things were there, and we saw an original statue of the Sphinx, and saw writing on the actual papyrus. So cool!