Freee Day!

Wednesday was our last day to explore Paris.  Since our Museum Passes were no longer valid, we saved all of the free stuff for this day.  This was the only day it didn't rain.  We started out at the Carnivalet Museum, basically about the history of the city.  There were mainly paintings, art, old artifacts, nothing extremely special, but we enjoyed it.  They did have Napoleon's death mask and his suit of armor, pretty neat.  Then we headed to see the Eiffel Tower, up close and personal...Finally!  The thing is huge, Mike couldn't believe how big it was.  There were people trying to sell you stuff constantly, and it was all the same stuff!  Insanely annoying, but we managed.  We took lots of pictures, did a bit of people watching, and admired all the dogs at the dog park.  I know so many people have seen it, but it's pretty neat to think little-old-me has been to the Eiffel Tower :) 

We got a crepe with chocolate and chantilly and watched the carousel by the tower.  There were 2 couples taking wedding pictures, and they couldn't have looked less thrilled, it was really weird.  But we headed back and went to the Sacre Coeur to see the inside finally.  It looked really beautiful because it was dark by the time we got back.  We didn't know, but there was a service going on, so we got to listen to singing while we walked around, and we sat in the service for a while.  Pretty neat feeling, although we obviously couldn't understand anything.  We headed outside at 7pm to see the Eiffel Tower's "light show" where it gets all sparkly for 10 minutes at the top of every hour. 

That night we decided to hit up the Hard Rock Cafe, and apparently everyone else did too...at the same time.  We waited for about an hour, and didn't get out of there until after 11pm.  But our waiter was really funny, the burgers were good, and we got a free chocolate sundae to share for dessert.  It was a spendy bill, but now that's my 4th Hard Rock visit :)  Before we went home, we went to see the Moulin Rouge all lit up.  It looked really cool, and there were TONS of people outside.  We walked the block back home, absolutely exhausted, packed up, and got ready to get up super early to get our flight back to Norway.