Paris: our last day- Sacre Coeur & Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

Today was our last day in Paris! We had to check out of our hotel by noon, but our train back to Kaiserslautern didn't leave until after 5pm, so we had several hours to kill... but we still had to keep in mind that we had to drag our luggage around with us wherever we went. So we decided to first stop by Sacre Coeur and take some pictures.

It's huge! Located in Montmartre, this basilica is on the highest point in Paris.

All of us in front of the Sacre Coeur!

Entrance to Pere LaChaise Cemetary- really famous... a lot of famous people are buried here.

Over 800,000 people are buried here!!

The grave site of the one and only Jim Morrison.

Eating our trail mix lunch in the cemetery.

Ugh, it was SO HOT out!

Where Chopin is buried.

Molière's gravesite.

Oscar Wilde's gravesite... his tomb is covered in kisses left by admirers of both his writing and his lifestyle.

A little bit of home in Paris-- this restaurant was called Indiana. :)

Waiting outside of Gare de l'Est for our train back to Kaiserslautern! We tried to stay in the shade... it was so hot out. Inside the train station was way worse.

Nate fell asleep about ten minutes into the 2.5 hour train ride home.

We made it back to Germany safely! What an amazing trip! Paris was so great... we got to see most of the main sights and had a ton of fun figuring everything out on our own! The language barrier made it a little more difficult than London, but I was able to speak enough to get us by. After three French history classes in college, it was really awesome to be able to see everything that we had studied... it made it that more REAL. I was so happy that we were able to take this trip.. and that the air show happened to occur while I was abroad! We all had a great time! The food and wine were great, the museums full of masterpieces that we'd only previously seen in textbooks, and the sites were just awe-inspiring in real life. Paris was definitely a highlight of the summer!

This next weekend is Fourth of July weekend, but we don't have anything planned. Nate is on call at work and so we'll probably end up at one of the huge barbeques on base. Not that I mind... I think we could all use some down time! The weekend after that, however, I'm going to Lucerne, Switzerland! I've heard it's absolutely beautiful, and I can't wait! The weekend after that, I'm going to Brugge, Belgium, and then heading back to the States two days later. Time has really flown by... but we're making the most of it! I'm sure I'll have another post up once I have pictures from our Fourth of July adventure in Germany.

Cheers,
Annie