You Know Us Italians!

Today we visited the Concergerie, the Saint-Chappelle, and Notre Dame. The Concergerie is where Marie Antoinette was held for her last days before she was beheaded at the guillotine. We entered the building into one big room with columns lit up and then went through to see representations of what the cells would have looked like. And then we saw the room set up to look like the one where Marie Antoinette spent her last days. Then we went to the Saint-Chappelle which had been built to house the "authentic" crown of thorns that Jesus wore that were brought back from the Crusades. It was amazing stained glass everywhere. And since it was a nice sunny day the windows were all lit up. It was breath-taking. And finally we went to Notre Dame. We had a guy, who wasn't the best picture taker, take our picture and ended up having to get it retaken after leaving. Inside Notre Dame we saw all the prayer candles and again the stained glass windows. We sat for awhile to listen to the organ concert during mass. Before we all dozed off we went to a little cafe for coffee and milkshakes and then went to do some light shopping. On our way Jess and I ran into a Japanese family looking for the Concord. We grabbed our map since theirs was in Japanese and showed them how to get there. After they said, "Thank you, Oraegato, and Merci we said de rien. They go "Oh, de rien! Italianos!" We had a good laugh about us Italians speaking French. When we got back to the apartments we ate dinner and then, like Amanda said, went out to see the Eiffel Tower glitter. We also walked over to the Louvre for some night pictures. It's been a long day so I'll say good-night. Au revoir!