After breakfast, we took the Metro to the bank of the Seine for the tour of Paris’s sewers – something I’ve always wanted to do.  It turned out to be less of a “tour” and more like a museum located in the sewers themselves.  The smell was pretty bad, but the museum was interesting.  There was sort of a mix of modern sewers and the older historical sewers from the Hugo novels.  At the gift shop, I bought the girls a couple of puzzles with the moving squares, and they played with those as we walked back to Champs Elysee, browsed there a bit.

We then returned to the Montmarte area and walked down the hill, ending up again at Les Halles by accident.  We walked through the pedestrian district there, searching for the Moulin Rouge.  It turns out that my GPS map wasn’t accurate, though, so we weren’t able to find it.  We did stop at one point for the girls to use one of the public street toilets, which was an adventure.  We then had dinner at a street cafe near the hotel.

Afterwards, I went back out by myself to see the Eifel Tower after dark, being unable to convince anyone to come with me.  I took the Metro to the Trocadero, an elevated platform area across the river from the tower.  Just as I emerged, a thousand strobe lights started to flash all over the tower, making it sparkle like a jewel.  After a couple of minutes, this stopped and the tower returned to its yellow lighting.  I took pictures, and then walked across the river to the actual tower to take some more pictures from underneath.

Eventually, I got an ice cream cone, walked back to the other side of the river again, and said my goodbyes to Paris – until next time.