Joan of Arc
St. Honore et Las Pyramides
Back entrance to the Louvre
Uber-cool gloves
Arc du Carrousel
Main entrance to the Louvre
Tuileries Garden - do you see the Eiffel Tower?
Oh! There it is!!!
Family feeding the birds
Ouch! More of the Tuileries. Louvre and Arc in the background
Tuileries laid out by Catherine de Medici in the 16th century
Tuileries - open air museum
The Paris Axis. Louvre, Tuileries, Obelisk, Arc de Triomphe and Business district - all in a line.
Tuileries
Girl controlling one of the sailboats in the fountain (kids run around the water using the stick tied to the boat with a string)
The boats up close
The getaway car - wedding at St. Roch Cathedral
St. Roch cathedral
The bride wore red.
Yes, I'm such a tourist
Waiting to embark
St. Roch from the back
Exit for a subterranean parking garage
Paris traffic
Art Nouveau landmark
The sights
Where are the traffic lane lines?
Luxor obelisk - from 3,000 BC
Pretty street lamp
Olympic flame and ET
Eiffel Tower (ET)
Closer up - looks like lace!
Yup, that yellow thing halfway up is the elevator
View up the center
It's a ways up there
View from Altitude 95 - the restaurant
The Trocadero (from the restaurant)
The view nearly straight down from my seat
Altitude 95 in the Eiffel Tower
Waiting for the boat - they cleared the dock for a bomb threat
The non-working narration wand
Cool bridge sculpture - and some random asian guy
Yep, even the bridges are pretty
The National Assembly building
Sweet architecture
Notre Dame - from the boat (Seine River)
More of Notre Dame from the river (water was really low - can u tell?)
Yep, apartments
My Australian family - Paul, Alexa and Lia (Nelson took the picture - blame him for the blurriness)
Blurriness is all mine this time. The Conciergerie - where they kept Marie Antoinette prior to her beheading during the Revolution
Trudy and Nelson - cool peeps
ET all lit up
The Moulin Rouge
Oh yes we went. Too cool!
Petit Las Vegas without the gambling
Down into the subterranean parking
Opera Garnier
On every corner - even in Paris hahahah
Better view of the Opera
Thems busts of famous musicians up there (Mozart, etc)
The Vendome - made from melted down cannons
Is that cool car or what?!? (see any lane markings? me neither.)
Luxor Obelisk again
Champs Elysee
Arc du Triomphe
Even closer view
View of the Champ du Mars
Love itd
Looks like every french floozie doll I've ever seen!
Invalides
Ok - I'm sitting in the front of the bus (2nd level). I'm looking down on the car below (black) and note how close we are. It's a tiny car!!!!
Place de la Concorde - where the guillotine once stood
Quick shot of Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Yep, they're everywhere too
Into the Latin Quarter we go
Typical cluster of shops and brasseries/cafes