The Catacombs of Paris

After breakfast, we hopped on the metro and headed straight for the Catacombs! The Catacombs are a mass gravesite; the skeletons were moved here from the "Saints Innocents" graveyard in Paris when it became full to overflowing in the late 1700s. Some of the remains here date back to the 11th century. The Catacombs are an underground museum, commemorating the bodies, headstones, and inscriptions from the old cemetery. The Catacombs were originally a limestone quarry in the 12th century, but when it began collapsing in on itself in the 1700s, King Louis XVI created a commission to chart Paris's underground. This then proved to be the perfect site for the bodies. 

We waited in line for three and a half hours to get in, so I got myself a French baguette while I waited :)

Pictures of the underground bones, inscriptions, and headstones:

A miner (who must have been bored one day) carved this model of the Port-Mahon Palace (in Minorca, Balearic Islands) by memory. 

6 million people are buried here. 

After the Catacombs, we walked up to the river (it took an hour!) to eat dinner.

The buildings are so cute-just how I imagined them!

The French National Assembly building. 

Park on the Seine River. 

For dinner, I had a delicious 4-cheese penne pasta with French bread in the shadow of the Eiffel tower. For dessert, I hada Nutella crepe! Delicious!

Tomorrow, we are going sight-seeing! I'm so excited!