Saturday, November 1st

Palace of Versailles: King Louis XIV
Corb Salvation Army
Corb Ozenfant Studio
Top of the Eiffel Tower (day turned into night)
Notre Dame (Night)
Pompidou Centre (Night): Renzo Piano and Norman Foster

Friday and Saturday we had a couple of beers in the bar of the hostel. The hostel in Paris was pretty nice. It was more expensive but worth it, being that we got clean sheets in this one. Everyone who stayed in the hostel could go down and hang out in the bar area.

The Palace of Versailles is a world renowned place and studied in every world history class. All I remember from my history class is that there was no plumbing, so back when the King's lived there, they would use the corners of the rooms. I'm not making that up. It was a short train ride out of Paris and it was an absolutely miserable day. We walked through the Palace and checked out King Louis the XVI bed. This is also the place where the French president takes people like George Bush for international meetings. The gardens were enormous and since it was raining and freezing we left there at about 1:00 and hit up some McDonalds.

The most amazing part of this day was the top of the Eiffel tower. Matt and I waited 40 minutes in line, met a couple from Oregon, and climbed the stairs to the second pier of the tower. We got up there during the daylight and then while we were taking pictures and checking out the incredible views it turned night and the tower lit up blue. This made for some awesome photo’s. I was amazed and freezing, but not wet.

Notre Dame is my second favorite church I have seen, behind the Sagrada Famiglia in Barcelona. The Gargoyle's come from this cathedral.