Would it kill someone to leave a comment?: Moulin Rouge

Today started at 4am. That hurt a little. We took the Eurostar high speed train to Paris, arrived 11:15am. After sending our luggage off to the hotel in a van, we got on the Paris Metro and went to the Louvre. The Louvre is HUGE. I saw the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, and the Venus de Milo... got separated from our gang, but no big deal, i knew where and when we were meeting up and I managed to make it there.

Another hop on the Metro and we were at Notre Dame. As an architecture junkie and big fan of gothic cathedrals, this was awesome for me. There was also a cool bookstore right there called Shakespeare and Company that we had time to run into, it was really neat.

After our very Paris dinner experience, we went to Montmartre, a church on a hill where you get the most spectacular view of the whole city. There were shops and outdoor vendors near there where I bought my first souvenir of the trip, a painting by a local artist. (Whose name I will someday add to the blog, whenever i find the business card he gave me.)

That evening some of us went to see the show at the Moulin Rouge. Wha an iconic experience. I had the cancan stuck in my head for a week. And now, it's stuck in my head again... sigh.