Fitting it all in... (Part 4).

Another action packed day!

Centre Pompidou. I visited this newer, modern art museum. As is typical it had a lot of really cool and really bizarre things inside.

This was called "Winter Garden" and it was really cool because you can walk inside of it.

See? (This picture shows the ceiling, wall, and ground. Can you distinguish them?)

Another great thing about the Centre Pompidou is the view. Here you can see the Eiffel Tower, as well as a large part of Paris.

This is the really cool, industrial, modern hallways that you have to walk through to get to every floor. The outside of the museum is kind of hard to describe, but it is kind of inside out. All of the pipes are color coded (blue for air, etc) and on the outside, as are the escalators to get you from one floor to the next.

Another view of Paris, this time looking northwest, with Sacre Coeur in the right corner.

Then I joined Sara and Kelsey in the Tuileries Gardens, which is right inbetween the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde. As you can see, it was a beautiful day.

Next, Sara and I went to the Musée de l'Organerie, a tiny little museum in the Tuileries Gardens that is famous for have some of Monet's Waterlilies.

This picture is by Renoir and hung in my room for a really long time. Recognize it, Dad?

Here is one of the two rooms that had giant Monet paintings. Not nearly as many as were at the Monet museum that I went to with Mom and Brad.

Then we walked along the Seine. It was a beautiful day!

More Seine.

Then Sara, Ferris, and I went to this mosque that is in Paris, but it was closed, so all we could do was have tea in their restaurant. It was just like being back in Morocco! After that, Ferris and I decided to brave the 284 steps to the top of the Arc de Triomphe. Let me tell you, that is a lot of steps.

View of La Defense in the west of Paris.

View of the Eiffel Tower and surrounding area.

View of the Champs Élysées.

Ferris and I at the top, overlooking the Champs-Élysées.

Afterwards, we strolled down the Champs-Élysées and stopped into the Louis Vuitton store. It was ridiculous and I can only hope to someday be able to go into that store with the intention of actually buying something. Then we walked through the Christmas Market, but seeing as it was my third time there, it wasn't too exciting. Finally, we ended the night by going to a friend's apartment and just hanging out there all night with a bunch of people. It was a lot of fun, though we were all sort of wistful, as for most of us it's one of our last nights here.