We saw all the major works...couldn't see everything, obviously, because there are like 5 days worth of art in there...
We decided to have some fun with Les Trois Graces (the three graces). It's one of my favorites pics from the trip.
After the Louvre we headed down the river and walked through Jardin des Tuileries. The obelisk in the background at Place de la Concorde is the sight where Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were beheaded. 
We continued on and lunched on the Champs Elysee. We walked the length of it looking at all the pricey shops and made our way to the Arc de Triomphe.
After that it was on to the Eiffel tower.
My mom really wanted to go to the top, so we all accompanied her even though it was kind of scary...well all of us but Jill that is. After her incident on the bell tower at Notre Dame she wasn't up for any high rise adventures. Views from the top:
It was great to see the city from such a vast viewpoint. I want to go back one day and do it at night. I bet the lights are beautiful.Day 3
Day three began at Musee d'Orsay.
It's set in an old re-modeled train station and stocked full of pre-Impressionist and Impressionist art work and sculpture. We saw all the big names like Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Degas, and so on. It was great. After lunch we headed to the Catacombs. Long ago the cemetaries of the city became very unsanitary and a plan was hatched to excavate tunnels under the city and move the human remains there. Hence Paris has catacombs.
It was quite a long walk down tunnels and passageways to get to the main entrance above which it reads "Stop. This is the empire of the dead."
It was an interesting place to see. Its hard to explain what it was like to be among that many skeletons. 
We headed back out into the sunlight and took a long metro ride up to the north end of the city to explore Mont Martre, the bohemian-like artists quarters. We toured Sacre Coeur, the famous white church at the top of the hill.
On our way out of the neighborhood we made a stop at the Moulin Rouge for good measure.
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This is so fun, seeing your pictures! I've done a lot of the same things in the time I spent there, but that was well before the digital age of cameras, so I haven't looked at the pictures in forever and they're not NEARLY as good as yours! ;) I really really liked the Orsay.
You guys look like you had such a good time! What great memories! Keep 'em coming! How many more days do we have left?
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