flood of pictures

So now that i'm home i'm able to put the other pictures on that wouldn't go for whatever reason before. There's nothing else really from London that you can't look up on google so we'll move on to Paris. This is a good shot from one of the spire things on Notre Dame. The building behind it is the Council Building of sorts probably with a fancier name. It seemed almost as high as the Tour Eiffel but more free because there weren't heavy restraining bars everywhere. It felt like the top of the world.
This shows kind of where we were. We were on the very tippy top and also one level down where the gargoyles were but on the other side.
Sepia!
And the front :
Hehe, and here is the bidet in our hôtel room. If i had one it would be lime green.
Anyway, here is the famous bridge that leads from one side of the Seine across to the Louvré [which was awesome but someone wouldn't be able to see all of it unless they took up temporary residence there for about a week straight]. It was a beautiful bridge-all embroidered with gold and monuments. But in truth if it weren't for the gold it would have been just like any other bridge in Paris which is saying a lot. The architecture on every single one was beautiful but the designs weren't repeated so they were all unique. I'm going to make a collage of them. Along with stained glass.
And this is just something random. It was a display in some shop window on the way back to our hotel en Champs du Marche.
The beginning of the skulls de Les Catacombs.
Eerie is such an understatement, but so is cool. We had to go down about 80meters of stairs of a stone spiral staircase. It seemed like with each step the temperature dropped five degrees. There was a long walk before we reached a plaque that was in french but it didn't matter because the point obviously was to tell the visiters not to disturb the dead. About every 10 meters there was a sign carved out of stone that gave the date and the church that the bones were taken out of the cemetery. The wall was neatly stacked with thigh bones and the skulls were used to make designs, but behind the wall i could see broken bones as they were just thrown back there. Here and there gaps in the wall signified skulls that had been stolen over the years. We came upon a man that worked there and he showed us a skull that still had teeth in it and said that the bones go back 200 meters in all directions. He also said that visiters were only allowed in a small part and that the other corridors go on for many meters all around us. The uneven ground, cold musty smell and dripping water let you forget you were in the middle of the sweltering city. Now for some history. The purpose was to get rid of these corpses because during the plague the cemeteries were 10-12 ft higher than ground level. Also it was a good way to keep other people from getting sick. So all the people were moved down to these natural lime caverns so they could still be visited by their relatives.
And just some quick things from Rodin's garden. The Thinker: And the gates of Hell: Rodin's garden [eventhough we weren't able to go in the acutal museum] was my second favourite thing after Museé d'Orsay [the impressionist museum]. That means full of paintings like this: [Monet] And my favourite "L'eglise d"auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet": [van Gogh]
These are just the highlights, so you can imagine how long it would take to show it all. The rest can be for a later date. Happy traveling.
[Scientist]