Day 5: Paris, France - Notre Dame and running around Île de la Cité

Day 5 dawned nice and early, and we took the Métro to the oldest stop in Paris: Cité. We walked out of the station to hear the chirping of birds in the place that is usually the flower market. it turns into a bird market on sundays :) however we did find some flowers...



then we headed over to...

Notre Dame de Paris

the Jillcam


standing in line waiting to climb the north tower, notre dame towered over me


our feet, in flower formation. :)

then we got to climb the tower and i switched to...

the Quasimodocam


the courtyard


a friendly gargoyle. :P


sacre coeur and the exciting world of montmartre


la tour eiffel


l'église


flying buttresses


parisian rooftops


i love all the little chimney pots




un petit jardin


this guy was on rollerblades and was slaloming between the little marker thingies. it was nifty. :)

then we climbed down from the tower, and

the Jillcam came back on.


the north rose window. this was the least blurry picture i got of it, since i was shaking so badly after walking down 300 stairs. oh yeah.


a cool chandelier


the south rose window


outside in the courtyard. such a gorgeous church.

then it was time for

running around Île de la Cité

we were pretty hungry after Notre Dame, so we found this café...


and ordered lunch!




my heavenly chocolate crêpe which i shared with natali


rachel's strawberry crêpe

once we were done with lunch, we tried to get into Saint Chapelle, but we just missed the last entrance :( so we decided to wander around the island.
we walked back to where our cruise left from, aka, pont neuf...



...and rachel and natali had the bright idea to stick their toes in the Seine.


lots of squealing ensued. "that's so groooooooosss!", you know...




they thoroughly scrubbed their feet, and then all was well. we decided to go explore a bit more of paris, so we hiked back to cité...


on the steps of the oldest métro stop. my skirt was misbehaving because of the gusts of air issuing forth from the station.


us with the cutest kids in the world behind us.

...and got back on the train to explore. we went a few places, i got felt up by some pervy frenchman on a very crowded subway, and we went home. exciting, eh?