Today is Sunday, in Paris. We slept in, packed and then had breakfast at the same cafe as yesteday...it was handy and good, what can I say....
We then headed to Notre Dame to follow the Rick Steves' "Historic Paris" walking tour. We started at Notre Dame around 11am. Mass was starting as we were walking through it. I am not Catholic nor religious, but if there are ever religious experiences, this was one. To think that the Parisians (in this community) built this on their own, for over 200 hundred years, its amazing. The inside was beautiful. We had to wait for the priest and alter boys to come and walk past us as we walked around the outside of the "chapel". We stayed and listened to some of the choir too. Granted, the only choir I have heard has been Christmas Eve Mass in Arizona, I don't think I have heard anything like what we heard at Notre Dame. After leaving the church we followed the walking tour through a "Memorial of the Deported" for those French who were deported from Paris and later killed in concentration camps, through the Left Bank. We had lunch here and checked out a historic English bookstore where the likes of Hemingway and others, Luxembourg Garden, St Chapelle and finally Pont Neuf.
We caught the train back to Antwerp and checked in to the hotel. I had to finish prepparing for a presentation for Monday, so while Kevin slept, I worked.
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