Day 14

This morning {finally I'm caught up!} we got up and walked through Luxembourg Gardens, they were beautiful. There's a huge palace that was built by a long for his queen to remind her of Italy. Just for her. It was absolutely gigantic! 

See? It went a lot further back too!

From there we walked to the Pantheon which is currently under construction so we didn't go in. The scaffolding on the outside however, is covered with selfies of people! Mom read an article about it in Time a few weeks ago. This artist guy used to live on the streets and then became a famous photographer and was commissioned to decorate the scaffolding so that it didn't look as bad. Apparently the whole floor of the building on the inside is covered with selfies as well. The outside:

Cool. 

We went along the Seine River again, and found the Paris Plages {shoutout to Aunt Rose for finding out about these for us!}  Each year in Paris along this certain section of river they bring in truckloads of sand and umbrellas and chairs and ice cream stands and make a little beach that people can go and chill out at. You can't swim in the river {they regularly dump sewage into it apparently- ew.} but you can sit on the sand and relax and it was really great. Us at the "beach:"

Aww we're cute :)

We also saw Notre Dame, Arc de Triumph, the Louvre, the bridge with all the locks, that was really pretty. Lock bridge {+ me!}

{you can see the locks go all the way down the railing on the side, and all across the bridge. On both sides of the bridge and on the railings at each end. Easy to see how the bridge is starting to collapse under the weight of them all. They were so sparkly though, in the sun. It was beautiful}

On the metro back to our place 2 guys got on a stop or 2 after we did. One had a guitar, the other had a saxophone around his neck. They came on and the sax on stood next to me, the other guy across the car. They nodded at each other and then started playing! They played I'm Yours by Jason Mraz and Stand By Me by Ben E King. It was great. I took a video. Then in the station we got off at, there were more musicians playing some almost Spanish sounding song. One thing I loved about this trip was all the street performers and musicians. They are all so great. 

Now that I'm all caught up, it's time for bed. Less than 24 hours until we are back in the states... Good night America, I'll see you tomorrow!