Paris!!! 4th Mar

We headed out straight to the Louvre in the morning. It was the 1st Sunday of the Month and entry was free, but the line was long. We got inside, got ourselves a map of the museum, and it was huge. 4 floors within the museum, each of them so big! We decided to cover them in order. We soon realised that if we wanted to cover everything the same day, given the the museum closes at 6 PM, we just had time to skim through everything. So we did. But even with that, we felt we were falling short of time. There were so many things forcing us to keep looking at them, but we had limited time. We saw French and Greek sculptures, Egyptian artefacts, Mesopotamium relics, Moats of castles etc. Then we reached the paintings section and after covering a long gallery of paintings, we finally reached the Mona Lisa. It stands alone on a tall wide wall, surrounded in the room by a lot of other amazing paintings. Some of them, huge, very big, as big as walls, and the walls were tall and wide. My favourites among all the paintings I saw was 'The consecration of Napoloen III'.
After this, and skimming through other things, we searched for the inverted pyramid, we found it after asking a few people, some of whom didn't know what we were talking about.

After this, we headed on to the Notre Dame. It had started drizzling again by this time. We thought even today our visit to Eiffel would be worthless due to all the clouds that surround it when it rains. Notre Dame is a very big cathedral, and I attended my first Mass, at 6PM. I was expecting it to be revelationary, but it was all in French, and I couldn't understand a word. Moreover, it was similar to the Hindu artis, with diyas and a lot of smoke.

Found an Indian restaurant again , and ate there. It had started raining very hard by now. By the time we finished dinner, it at least stopped raining, but it got really cold, with strong winds, probably the worst weather to visit Eiffel. But nevertheless, we decided to go. To our surprise we didn't find any queue there, could be because it was a Sunday and local people weren't there, could be because of the weather, but we got a direct entry into Eiffel. A lift took us to the top of the tower. There are 3 floors to the tower, the 1st, 2nd and the top. The 1st and the 2nd are aproachable by stairs. We stopped at the 2nd floor 1st. It was very windy and very cold, but the view was awesome.

Then we took the lift and went on to the top floor. The  top floor is further very higher than the 2nd floor, and so much more windier. But there is an enclosed space where you can stand and look at the view 360 degrees. It was very cold, and very windy though. There is also an upper part of the top floor which is not enclosed withing glasses, so it was rustling with the sound of the strong winds. There is also a small room which was the apartment of Mr Eiffel.