Third Day in Paris, Can I Get Some Ice With That?

Friday, September 11, 2009

Apparently, Paris has an aversion to putting ice in drinks, even when it is specifically requested (thanks for the heads up, Jen). Today we had a nice little breakfast of oj, coffee, tea, and bread at the hotel. Then we took the Metro to Pere La Chaise cemetery which is several hundred years old. Our main reason for going was to visit the grave of Jim Morrison from The Doors. It was a very somber experience. We had hoped that the bust of Jim would be on the gravestone, but it had been removed because of vandalism, so it didn't look like the image we had grown up with. We went on to visit the grave of Oscar Wilde to find that it has been kissed hundreds of times by women wearing red lipstick. We then decided to try a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch which is not the same as a ham and cheese back home. Notre Dame Cathedral was next. It is probably the biggest and most impressive church we have ever been in. It made you feel very small, which is the intention. We lit candles and sat and enjoyed the silence. We got to see two different parts of Paris today- the theatre district and the Latin Quarter, both which we really liked. After Notre Dame, we stopped by the Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore, which is the Paris extension of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Tons of famous writers hung out there. We ended the day at a cafe where Troy tasted her first cappuccino.