Waterlilies, Mirrors and a Crepe!

We were very tired yesterday morning. Our trip's traveling is catching up to us. After breakfast we set out in the slightly cold Parisian morning and went to the Sacre Coeur, which is a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Christ. Up at the top of Montmartre, it has so many stairs to climb up, but once you are there it is magnificent! It is the second highest point after the Eifferl Tower. The church was built by businessmen who swore that if Paris was saved from destruction in the Franco-Prussian War they would build a church. It was finally completed on the onset of WWI so they waited until 1919 for it to be officially consecrated. After Sacre Coeur, we went to the Musee de Orsay and saw a bunch of beautiful impressionist and postimpressionist works. There were tons of famous paintings that we saw as well as a couple of statues we recognized. The Van Gogh's were incredible and the Degas, Renoir, Manet, Monet, I could go on forever. I love seeing paintings from history textbooks as well like "dancing at the moulin de la galette" - Renoir and "Olympia"- Manet. So crazy to see things in real life! We then headed to the Musee de l'Orangerie to see Monet's waterlilies. They were so pretty and huge! They cover whole walls, so seeing them in person is a unique experience and awesome to get their full effect. After Zurich, Orsay, and the Orangerie we feel like we have seen so many! It's amazing. We then got some lunch and headed for Versailles because we realized it is closed on Mondays! And I really wanted to go there because art is more of Ashley's thing, and history is mine. The Palace of Versailles is so grand, it amazed me again even for the second time. I adore the cliche rooms, haha of course the Hall of Mirrors and Marie Antoinette's bedroom. The hall of mirrors I could spend so much time in if the hordes of people weren't so much of a deterrent. I just imagine how it must have felt to the people who had never looked at themselves in a mirror before! And Marie's bedroom is so great because you can see her escape door she used! We couldn't go to the gardens because they had some special show our pass didn't cover, but we did see them at least. And I'm glad I've walked through them before. We got some dinner in the Latin Quarter and while Ashley ate and got coffee I went quickly to the Pantheon to see if it was still open because it was 6:30 already. It was closed but Ashley didn't want to see it anyways and we saw the front which is always amazing. But I would have likes to see the inside and Voltaire's tomb again. We did find a flea market in the Latin Quarter and wished we had space in our luggage, there were so many cool things! We finished our day with taking the metro to our hostel worn out and then trying to find food. All I wanted was yogurt and a nutella crepe, they were amazing :)