Le Grande Paris!

This past weekend I was in Le Grande Paris! Due to some health problems I didn't get around to see as much as I had hoped, but I did enjoy what I got to see and learned a GIANT amount about generosity, compassion and God's provision (more on this in a future blog!)

Just as a brief overview to explain the pictures, I visited the Sacre Coeur, La Place de Tetre in Montmartre, the Catacombs, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and Musee D'Orsay.

I spent the majority of my time eating - freshly made crepes with nutella, creme brulee gelato, pain au chocolate, croissants and baguettes - and drinking vin rouge. Let me just say that there IS such a thing as too much good food! I think I will have to starve myself for the next month! :)

I sat in the park by the Eiffel Tower with friends and picniced on baguettes, cheese and wine and was able to see the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night. I watched artists paint on canvas. I smelled and tasted fresh baking. I ate escargot. I drove around in a LOT of taxis. I attempted to speak French (an absolute failure!). I was accosted by French men. I listened to live music.

I don't think that there is one sense that is not used!

On a more gruesome note, I visited the Catacombs. Basically, the Catacombs is a bone collection of 5 to 6 million people. It is a network of subterranean tunnels and rooms located in what were Roman-era limestone quarries.  The quarries were converted into a mass tomb near the end of the 18th century, because at the time, the Les Halles district in the middle of the city of Paris was suffering from disease, which was due to contamination caused by improper burials and mass graves in church graveyards. So it was decided to remove the bones discreetly and place them in the abandoned quarries.

On a bit of a more wholesome note, I was able to visit the Musee D'Orsay. It was really nice to walk through a museum filled with paintings by Degas, Renoir, Monet, Szanne and other famous impressionist painters.

Hope you enjoy these as much as I did!!