Day 61 - Paris

Last day in Paris.

We´ve been here since last Monday, so 10 days now. Awesome city. Tons to see and do and great atmosphere. I think i´ve also enjoyed it because i can actually talk to the locals here. Being able to communicate helps alot for sure and makes everything alot easier. Even just being here for a week and a half my French has gotten alot better than when we first arrived. Been speaking French quit abit, especially when we were with Gabrielle and Laticia who i only talk to en Francais.

Anyways.

We got up at 9 and headed on the Metro to the French Science Center (Cite des Sciences). We´d pretty much done everything in Paris we wanted to and we´d saw signs for this huge Star Wars exposition at the Cite des Science, so we thought´d nerd it up and head there for a few hours to check it out.

We got to the center around 10:30 and paid for the Star Wars Expo which also gave us access to the rest of the exhibits in the science center. The Star Wars stuff was pretty cool. The exhibit had a whole bunch of the costumes, models, and sets from the 6 movies. There was alot of ´behind the scenes´type stuff where they explained how they did different parts of the movies and explained some of the science (possible or not possible) behind different parts of the movie. It was good.

We spent about an hour and a half going through the Star Wars stuff and then another hour or so going through the rest of the center which really wasn´t that good. From there we jumped back on the Metro and headed to Sacre Coeur, a big church (yup...yet another church) up on a hill looking down over the city and probably has a whole history and significance that i don´t know.

So we got there around 2, go hassled by the Africans looking to sell you anything they can think of, went through the church adn the crypt underneath, then climbed up to the viewing platform in one of the towers. The view from the top was pretty good, but definately not as good as from the Arc de Triomphe. From there we had a quick cappuccino while my pics got burnt to cd at the store next door.

We took the subway back to the hostel and hung out and showered and stuff. We met up with a bunch of older Aussie boys and this guy from London, ON who we´d met back in Vienna at Wombat´s. So we got a bunch of beer from the corner store and spent the rest of the night hanging out and watching Road Trip (again) and Austin Powers, laughing our asses off.