Notre Dame de Pompidou

The other day I went with Adin, Jennifer and my brother, to Notre Dame de Paris and the Pompidou Center (which in Paris people call Beaubourg).

First we took a little boat, called a bateau mouche, which travels on the Seine and takes you to certain places around Paris. We got off at Notre Dame de Paris. When we got here we stood outside for a while, just looking at the outside and the famous big round stain glass window. When we got in all the windows looked different, because from the inside you can actually see the pictures on them. We also saw many retables (they are long wood carvings that tell a story) and statues from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Then we got back on the boat, and went along to the place closest to the Pompidou Center. It is a giant art center but it's really weird because most of it is made out of glass and all the heating pipes, water, air conditioning, etc. are color coded and instead of being inside they are outside the building like the exoskeleton of a bug. That particular day by chance it was the last day of construction but it was still closed so we could not go inside. We went to a statue garden outside and got some hot chocolate. After that we went back home.