Mona, Jesus and Louis V.

Rest. Rest is all we needed. After getting a great nights sleep, we took down a nutritious Petite Dejayneur, which is basically bread in five formats (baguette, croissant, etc.), coffee and orange juice, and ventured to the Louvre. The Louvre is enormous, so we opted for a guided tour this time. Our tour guide was great and we got to see all the highlights including the Venus de Milo, French crown jewels, Winged Victory, and of course.... drumroll please......MONA! The picture is tiny and behind eight layers of glass so it was hard to get a good look, but awesome to see none the less. Our guide gave us lots of information on the history of many of the paintings and we enjoyed learning more in detail about some of the pieces.

After our tour of the Louvre we decided to see what Lynn and Bob are made of. We took them up their first Dome climbing experience with Blake at the Sacre Coeur. The church is a beautiful white building perched on a hill overlooking the city. The locals claimed it was too gaudy when it was built and that it looked like a wedding cake. These French sure are picky!

After taking a quick turn through the chapel, we headed up to the top of the dome. Bob and Lynn were champs and climbed right along. We basically had the entire dome to ourselves and spent some quality time taking pictures and gazing 35 miles in all directions around Paris.... The weather has been absolutely GORGEOUS. Today we just needed our jackets and a light sweater under. Also, there is NO ONE here. We don't have to wait in lines or crowds. It's awesome!

After our aerobic exercise, we decided we needed some retail therapy, so we headed over to the Champs Elysees...

After a turn down the road and a stop of the Arch Di Triumph...

We found that one little place we'd been searching for, and yes... two Louis Vuitton purses just jumped in our hands and wouldn't let go. We SERIOUSLY tried to get them out, but they were stuck. So we finally just felt sorry for them, and decided to let them come home with us.....

And somewhere Tabitha cried and Blake had visions of a Playstation 3 dancing in his head...

Now after a crepe dinner we're headed back to the apartment to get ready for a day at Versaille, and a special French version of Bob and Lynn' s anniversary!