Today we woke up early and went to the train station. To reserve our spots on the TGV tomorrow morning, it only cost us an additional 10 euros each and the rest is covered by our Eurail. After we got all that figured out, we went over toward Sacre Couer. The location of this basilica is amazing: it's on the highest point in Paris. We had to climb soooo many steps to get to it, but that was nothing compared to the view from up there. We took pictures of the ou...

We didn't set the alarm this morning, so we didn't even leave the hostel until 11:30ish. Oh well. The sleep was good and much needed. We tried to go to the Catacombs, but encountered some troubles. It took us 25 minutes of running around the same three blocks before we could even find the entrance, only to find out that it is closed for repairs this month. How ridiculous. We headed over to the Pantheon instead, which was pretty cool. We went downstairs to the cr...

We arrived n Paris earlier today, so we found our hotel and then headed to the Louvre. We walked around there for nearly 3 hours. We saw the Mona Lisa, but there was a huge crowd around it, obviously. It's a beautiful painting, but what really makes it so different than all the others? We saw so many gorgeous paintings ... it just seems like a cult obsession. After that we walked around the tuleries. A girl saw my University of Michigan Dance Marathon t-s...