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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Day Seventeen:

Sorry I didn't get to this yesterday guys!!!

On Day Seventeen we went to Sacre-Coeur.
It's basically a really big church on the top of the highest point in Paris, also known as 425 feet above sea level.
Not very high in my book.

The roads up to Sacre Coeur are very interesting, being completely lined with a combination of clothing stores, souvenir shops and fabric stores.
The clothing stores were full of bargain bin prices that would definently rival Ross.
We're talking Converse knock-offs for one Euro.
An entire bin of stuff for only ten cents!!!

Needless to say two pairs of shoes were bought along with many pieces of jewelry and other such necessities.

At SC we went to the top of the tower, which is not that scary. It obviously has less tourists and less money than Notre Dame however and this is shown by the graffetti and lack of safety netting over walk-ways.
Cristen displayed this wonderfully by having me take a picture of her with her legs dangling off the tower.
Wonderful.

Anyways, we went down and the downwards sprial is much more difficult than the upwards due to the lack of light and improper ratio of height to width (like Pondo, ugh). After having a bit of a panic I made it down the stairs very safetly.

After the SC we tooled around Montmarte (something like that) a sqaure filled with artists and cute little cafés.
My dad bought a really nice picture of a dancer done by an African artist, I personally think it'll look great next to the Picasso.
(Haha)

Luckily once we got this wonderful painting the rain began.
We were able to wait it out in a café, luckily.

We made it back to the Metro and got home for dinner. Take out pizza (so wonderfully delicious) and salad.

It was a good day.

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