In the morning Maggie and I went to the Catacombs, the line was soo long when we got there. It took us 2 hours to get to the front of the line, since they are only able to let 300 people in at one time. It was so incredible, very interesting, a little depressing. 
The amount of bones in there was just beyond comprehension; they were like 8 feet deep and like 8 feet high. When you think about how many bodies are in there it is really crazy. Its almost a mile under ground that you walk through full of skeletons arranged in neat rows and sometimes patterns. After walking through the Catacombs, we wanted to go to Notre Dame, by this time it was almost 1pm.
We took the subway to Notre Dame and waited in line to get inside, but the line moved quick this time. The inside was impressive, but I liked the outside more. 
We walked along the side afterwards and saw the gargoyles, and we randomly stumbled on a bridge with locks all over it.
The locks are meant to represent love, and supposedly you are supposed to throw the key into the water, the whole entire bridge was covered with them. It was beautiful! After reading a few of the locks and taking lots of pictures we took a walk recommended to us by Guillome to the Centre Pompidou. On the way we saw this 3d grass sculpture, which looked different from every angle, and from a platform looking like a globe of grass.
The Centre Pompidou is a modern art museum with a very modern exterior, which looks like pipes.
Right across from the entrance is the Stravinsky Fountain created by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle. I loved that fountain!
We didn’t go into the museum because we didn’t have enough time before it closed. Instead we got a crepe at a small café and then walked around this very trendy area that Guillome also recommended. 
Rue de Francs Bourgeois and Rue St. Antoine were the streets that we walked down, there were tons of great bakeries, clothing shops, vintage shops, jewelry shops. It was a great walk, nice to get out of the tourist area. We headed to the Bastille afterwards where the French Revolution started.
Then we went back to the hotel to download Marie Antoinette, we felt it was appropriate since we are going to Versaille tomorrow. For dinner we went to a near by shop to get a Doner Kebab. It was pretty good, as we ate it while watching our movie. Unfortunately the movie would only let us watch 1 hour, which was sad but good because we needed to get to bed. For our long day at Versaille tomorrow.
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