The Notre Dame Cathedral

We went notre dame cathedral today... It was wonderful despite the 5 euro charge to light a candle... So i lit one and the nun said I could keep the other as a souvenir... a new jesus candle with "Notre Dame de Paris" on it... The pictures I got were phenomenal... I had a great opportunity to just roam around... The bells began to ring and agathe and I were separated from each other... So thats when I opted to light my candle and sit and wait for the commotion to cease... It didn't especially when the cardinal came in and the young kids were acolytes in front of him... We had come to visit during the afternoon mass... I learned how to turn off my flash and I got a few pictures when we were leaving of the cardinal giving the mass... It was amazing because half is in French and half is in Latin... How amazing, what a wonderful opportunity... on the negative, It was extremely difficult to even begin to concentrate on the service while people aka: dumb Americans are using flash cameras all around you in your little pew and yelling children... after 5 min of that I was ready to wanna say something but since I was in church I vowed to never use a FLASH camera in a church EVER again... I think everyone else should do the same...

We had a wonderful dinner tonight as well since the parents came back from the south... Agathe and I cooked for 2.5 hours and the dinner was amazing... I found out why she wanted such an extravagant dinner... she had over drafted her account by 1,000 euros... WOW and in the words of her father... "come on Agathe"....

More to come tomorrow after the days events...

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daniellebachan on August 30, 2007 from Paris, France

from the travel blog: FRANCE/Europe 2007

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