Woke up at 8:00 AM. A lot quieter this morning that yesterday morning. Ate breakfast and caught the subway to the Louvre. Massive place, some of the old 17th and 18th century paintings are incredible, especially the large format ones (the ones that take up a whole wall!) Saw the Mona Lisa.
Unfortunately, there is absolutely no English at the Louvre, so we couldn'd read anything about any of the art.
Went the the catacombs, but it was closed for renovations. Apparently, the catacombs is this massive "catacomb" made out of human skulls and skeletons. It was first created in the 1800's, if I remember, then the government shut it down in 1830 or something, because they thought something like that was not very "proper" for a civilizes society.
Found a photo place downtown that would put Neil's digital pictures on a CD for him. I have lots of room left, so I don't need that service (yet anyway!) So, perhaps we can send a few pics in the near future! Neil has to pick up his CD-ROM tonight after 10:00 PM.
Ate supper at McDonalds.
Got back to the hostel and got a room for tomorrow night. The previous two nights, we got a room with 4 beds, for the four of us. Tonight, we are in an 8 bedder, two of the other guys in the room are from the US, one from Missouri (an old guy, at least 50 years old...his grandfather and uncle farmed near Moose Jaw, if you can believe it!), the other guy was a younger guy from California.
After booking our room, we decided we had to head back downtown, to a EuroRail place and make reservations to get out of Paris. We catch a train to Rennes tomorrow morning at 7:35, we'll have to be up early tomorrow morning!
There are a lot of beggars in Paris. Then there are a lot of "buskers", that play instruments or mime for money. On the subway today, there was some guy playing an accordian. After he was done playing, he went around collecting money.
Ok, traffic in Paris is HORRIBLE!! Traffic jams, everywhere! It's a nightmare, traffic doesn't flow well at all. Ryan can't beleive it, coming from a civil engineering background.
On the way to the train station, one of the subway systems was shutdown, presumably some accident of some sort. Anyway, it made the alternate subways crazy busy.
That's all for now, I think. Hopefully our next hostel will have internet access.
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