On Sunday we went to the Louvre and then walked around more of Paris ... saw the Arch of Triumph which was just a big arch in the middle of a big rotary filled with cars. But one of the last things we did was visit Saint Chappelle. The church has a downstairs where the regular people worshipped and then an upstairs where the royalty worshipped. The upstairs had walls that were filled with stained glass windows. Very detailed and intricate stained glass. There are 15 stained glass windows/walls in Saint Chappelle and each pane represents a scene from the bible. The very first tile shows God creating Earth and then a few tiles later you see Adam and Eve, etc. Each window has a different pattern to it ... diamonds, circles, squares, etc.
Some of the pictures are blurry but I'm putting them in anyway so you can get an idea of the scope of the stained glass. Here is what is called the rose wall, it's in the back of the chapel, and it depicts the apocalypse (so it's supposed to be the last wall of stained glass and therefore the end of the bible):
Then it was 2:30 and we were starving so we found some Greek gyros where they put french frieds RIGHT INTO THE WRAP WITH THE MEAT. Awesome. Though Martin and I both prefer the Turkish version, döner kebabs.
I ate mine the fastest. :) But Martin ate his and half of Esther's and then had to have a good long sit while he digested.
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