Au Revoir

Our last day in Paris was decent weather-wise.  It wasn't raining (although it did rain a bit later that evening) so we decided to do the Tower at Notre Dame (we were going to on Thursday but the line was around the block and we wanted to go to the Orsay) and then just spend some time walking around Paris.  The line to get into the Towers was really long - over an hour - because they let 30 or 40 people go up every 10 minutes.  But the views were worth the wait:

After we left Notre Dame we walked a bit and came upon the Pompidou Center, which holds a fantatsic collection of modern art.  We originally were thinking that we didn't want to do any more museums but we changed our minds and we were glad we did.  The building itself is apparently quite controverisal - it is very  modern in a Renaissance era city - but the museum was wonderful.  If you like modern art, this is a must-see.

This video shows the Blue Series by Joan Miro' - we really like Miro and have two prints of his paintings in our home:

For our last night in Paris, we ate at Little Breizh, a cute little cafe specializing in crepes, then we went to visit the Sacre Couer.  It had just finished raining when we got there and so not too crowded but it was really dirty, with broken bottles and trash everywhere.  We walked around a bit and bought some cheese at a kind of farmer's market that they were having, then headed over for one last look at the Eiffel Tower: