April 24 - In Paris (Part 1)

Sight seeing is hard work!  After two days of tourist activities in Paris, Lyle and I are quite exhausted. When we arrived in the city, we purchased a two-daymuseum pass, and so we wanted to see as much as we could.  A list as is good to tell you about this as anything else.

Saint Chapelle - a pretty little church with the most beautiful vertical stained glass windows

The Conciergerie - the last stop before the guillotine.  This is a massive building, spectacular on the outside and huge and stark on the inside.

Notre-Dame Cathedral - awesome!  It was difficult to imagine this as a place of worship with the throngs of tourists inside.

Army Museum - too dimly lit for my liking

Napoleon's Tomb - good stop for any historian

Rodin Museum - a good stop for me.  I was given a pair of white gloves so that I could feel four of the sculptures.  I especially liked the Prodigal Son with his upturned head but felt a little embarrassed to thoroughly all the life-sized parts!  Unfortunately, the famous Thinker was placed on a pedestal too high for me to see.

One of the best parts of this day was strolling along the bank of the Seine.

Part 2 to follow soon.