Paris / Day 2 Pt. 1

We begin day 2 off to a wet start. Almost as soon as we get out of the Metro to our first stop, it begins to rain. Apparently, 20% chance means 20 min. of rain, which doesn't sound that bad except during that 20 min. it absolutely cascades. It goes bright and sunny, sudden biblical flooding (lightning and thunder included), then back to sun again. Best thing to do is just wait it out, as we did at the entrance of beautiful St. Merry. 

We eventually arrived at Pompidou which was larger than I always imagined. Architecture with an external structural skeleton isn't really unique nowadays and the elevator tubes reminds me of the Macy's Mall in Beverly Hills, but it still looked pretty impressive nonetheless. 

These smoke stack things looked pretty neat, but the acoustics from them facing down towards the museum entrance was really, really good. You could hear this kid playing some little weird sax throughout the whole courtyard.

Up we go...

This was the first time seeing above the city up close (Sacre Coeur was great, but it was too far). As far as size goes, it's definitely larger than London. I was able to walk across London fairly easily, but walking across Paris would take the majority of the day. 

There's that Eiffel tempting us again. We'll get there soon enough...

Mandatory selfie for Michelle.

Sacre Coeur again. Again, from the looks of it, you'd never guess that only an hour ago there was pouring rain, lightning and thunder. This wild weather is something we've had to get used to while staying here. On the plus side, it tends to leave as fast as it shows up, so you only need to find shelter for at most 30 min. before being ok to go back out agian. 

Cool LED signs inside. 

Here's the Stravinsky Fountain with a bunch of cool sculptures. Wish they were running though. Finding a fountain in Paris this time of the year that's actually running proved to be pretty rare. 

Gotta love the juxtaposition of these two great pieces of art being adjacent to each other. 

The full sun just after the rain made for some wonderful (although very intense) lighting. 

And lastly we saw the Saint Jacques before heading to the island to see the most famous Parisian church of them all.