No night train is complete without kebab

Scott + I are settling into our train to Venice. We are in a 6 bed compartment + right now only 1 other person is in here (with 13 minutes until departure!)

We had a wonderful day in Paris. We stopped by the Louvre, to see if the brochure had lied + it was opened. Nope.

Then we finally figured out how to use the Velib bikes that are all over Paris. There are these stations every couple of blocks with about 20 bikes and you put in your credit card to get the bike for a euro. Then it is free for the first half hour, a euro or two for the next hour, + it gets more expensive. The point of the bikes is sort of to be like a metro + drop them off at a different location once you get there. So you can use them for a couple hours for like 7 euros + then it is like 4 euro per half hour after or if you just use it for 30 minutes you just pay a euro. We thought it was absolutely brilliant! A metro for people that like to exercise.


So Scott + I went to the Musee D'Orsay + saw lots of Van Gogh, Renoir, + Monet.

....took a bike to Invalides to see Napoleon's Tomb



View of where the tomb is kept from the Rodin Museum Gardens

The tomb

...and then walked to the Rodin Museum. Our favorite was definitely the Rodin which we went to thanks to Schilero. It had a beautiful garden (where The Thinker is) + we really wish we had brought food to have a picnic in. But instead afterward we got some picnic stuff + went to the Eiffel tower for our last stroll. Afterward we rented some more bikes + had lots of fun driving thru the crazy roads of Paris. The Thinker + I


Some kids pointing + staring at Scott posing with some sculptures The quatro amigos
We then spent our last couple of hours enjoying the Eiffel Tower for the last time.


I wasn't very good at jumping


We made our way back to our hotel to pick up our backpacks + then metroed to the Bercy Train Station. We picked up some kebabs to go + now we are just waiting to leave...long night ahead of us since our compartment is definitely FULL. Luckily we made ourselves wake up early this morning so we will hopefully fall right to sleep.