Paris: Day 4

The Catacombs (scary music...)
In the 18th century (snoring) (no seriously this is cool) Paris was in crisis, with people living in such close quarters because land was slim, sanitary was undeveloped (that's another tour) and disease was rampant. The population realized that valuable real estate was being taken over by the dead in beautiful church courtyard cemeteries. So they dug up their dead and piled the bones in a spent limestone quarry below the city. 6 million bodies were moved here. I'm sure the task went from exciting to gross to dull, so they had to express creativity somehow, right? These are, for real, 250 year old bones. Talk about mayhem at the Resurrection!

There was miles of this stuff

AND...back to the real Paris with satisfied husbands (since they got to see dead people). After a quick curbside crepe, we wander through Luxembourg Gardens

I have been informed that I have reached my kiss picture quota, but he will take a hug from me

I could've spent more time in the gardens (and kind of wish we had), but there was more to see.

This is San Chapel. These walls are covered in stained glass depicting bible scenes

The husbands were tired and grumpy by the end of the church, so we sent them off to rest and we got ourselves some gelato which provided a second wind for shopping in the Latin Quarter

Once back with the husbands, we grabbed Gyros from a corner stand and boarded a ship for a sunset cruise of the Seine River

We started with a great view of Notre Dame. You cannot get this angle of the flying buttresses on land

There are dozens of bridges you pass under as you cruise along, each from a different century with a different story that I like to make up in my mind.

My fav from the Seine

and a close up (sorry about the blur)

We got to watch the sparkle of the tower from the boat this night. It's so magical. This is a Paris must.