Crypts and a French Smack Down!

August 10, 2007 by Tiffany.

I’ve decided I can cram in one quick blog today before we take off for Geneva shortly.  Today I visited the archeological crypts underneath the Notre Dame Cathedral.  No, no this one does not involve dead bodies that I know of, but simply the cellar frameworks of now demolished buildings dating randomly from the fourth century until the eighteenth century.

Pretty cool but most of the display was in French so I’ll need to do more research on my own to see what I was really looking at.  I also strolled through the cathedral and took some pictures.  Apparently the funeral services of what looked like a cardinal were held in the cathedral that morning so it was closed most of the day and blocked off for security.  I overheard that the new president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy was in attendance.

It’s so huge inside they still had television screens up and down the pews from the morning’s services, since to sit in the back virtually guarantees you won’t see a thing up front.  I also saw my first French smack down during lunch!  I chose a quaint little crepe shop for lunch that is on a street that isn’t much more than a glorified sidewalk.  At some point this moving truck parked out front and needed space to set up their lift outside the window of the dwelling.  I’m imagining there isn’t an elevator and that the stairwells are far too small to lift anything upstairs.  Since cars were in the way, the two guys apparently decided to take a scene right out of a Mentos commercial and lift this small, white hatchback car out of the way.  Problem is when they set it down partially on the sidewalk it rolled forward and hit the car in front of it, causing noticeable body damage to both vehicles.

Crepe shop waitress knows the owner of the white car and proceeds to get in a ten minute super yelling match with the moving guys.  Very interesting indeed.  By the time I was leaving, they had moved the mattresses into the apartment.  Nuts.  Can’t tell you what came of the whole situation since I couldn’t understand.  Anyway, off I go.  See you on Sunday.

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