Anniversary Vacation

First thing today, we went to the Louvre. We walked to the Sulley metro station and rode #7 to the Louvre metro station. We followed to signs to train #1 and exit (sortie) #6. This took us to the Carousel shopping center under the Louvre. I went to the Tabac Shop and bought tickets to the Louvre. Then we were told by the people at the Carousel Louvre Entrance to go up the pyramid entrance to use them, so we did. After being shown the line for customers with pre-purchased tickets, we got in it. After going through security, we realized that the lines were different security lines and went to the same areas under the pyramid. This area is where you purchase tickets or just enter the Louvre if you already have them. Strange. We spent 3.5 hours there looking for our short list of must-see art then just looked at whatever happened along.

Then we took the metro to the catacombs. We waited in line for an hour and half talked with a family from Dublin, Ireland. It was Dad (Michael) youngest son (Timothy) and oldest daughter (Louise). He said his wife and middle son were at the Louvre. About 30 minutes before we got to the head of the line, Timothy was bugging Michael the point that they left to wonder around, so we went through the catacombs with Louise. It was pretty cool. We took the audio guide which told us the story and why we were looking a ton of bones in Paris.

After spending about 20 minutes lost, we made it to Jardin du Luxembourg, a park in Paris. There we ran into Michael, his wife, and three kids. We chatted a couple of minutes and went on our way to walk around and take some picture of the Luxembourg Palace. 



Then we walked home but did some shopping along the what. We stopped at the local bread and pastry shop to get some bread for dinner and croissants for breakfast. Then we stopped at the wine shop to get a some wine.

We made dinner and then it was off the Eiffel Tower. It was an easy trip, bus 87 to us right there from our apartments. It was beautiful at night.