Bonjour!--Day 3

4 May 2010
Versailles et Paris, France
via Rome, Italy

For our last day in Paris, we relocated from Compiegne to Paris. We got a sweet little hotel near the Montemartre area of Paris. We were close to the Moulin Rouge actually!




some of the fountains at Versailles. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful






We started off the day with a trip to Versailles on the train. The weather was nice, but very windy. We skipped the palace part and went for the gardens. They were lovely. At some point, my camera battery died. What terrible timing, I know! Luckily, I had my iPhone with me. The light was good, so I got some really great photos.

We stayed at Versailles for a few hours and headed back to Paris for a little break and to settle our things into our hotel room. Then we did a walking tour of the Montmartre district that my guidebook suggested.




pretty stained glass from a church near the beginning of the walking tour







This turned out to be a pretty good route. My favorite part was the Sacre Cour. It was around 5:00pm or so, and there were nuns singing! That was really neat. Josh and I actually wound up climbing over 300 steps (after having climbed over 100 that morning at Versailles) to get to the top of the center dome. It was a fabulous view and definitely worth it, though! Pictured here is the church as well as one of the photos I took from the top.




For dinner, we wound up eating at a little cafe along one of the streets.

We each had a bowl of [French] onion soup.








I had chicken,







and Josh had pasta.







Then we had creme brulee for dessert. We thought we were ordering brie which was included with our meal, but our non-English speaking waiter misunderstood us. It was an acceptable mistake, though.




We continued our tour around Montemartre to the Moulin Rouge. It's a pricey establishment, so we just took some photos outside like everyone else was doing.




For our last event, we took the metro to the Eiffel Tower to see it all lit up at night. This was definitely awesome. It was pretty during the day, but even better at night. Naturally, I took a million photos of this thing, but I'll only post a few here =)

We headed back to the hotel after that because we were exhausted from the past few days of sightseeing.