In love with the City of Love

Kennedy: We haven't written for so long because we literally haven't had any down time in Paris. Definitely trying to fit as much in as possible in our last few days... I cannot believe we'll be getting on a plane in 24 hours. Did these last three months feel like 3 weeks for anyone else?
Okay enough feeling sorry for myself; we've been running around Paris like crazy people for the past 5 days. First day was spent on (surprise surprise) a free walking tour. Those New Europe guys should give me something for plugging their company all the time.... don't know what though since they've already given me about 8 free city tours. But I digress... tour was cool, learned a lot of really important stuff about Paris, like which bridge Big told Carrie she was "the one" on in the last episode of SATC.... and how Louis XIV liked to pirouette all over his great big palace... and how Henri IV had all his drunk friends made into sculptures on a different bridge, some of whom look like they are about to blow chunks. How romantic.
4 hours of random facts later, we headed to the Louvre while it was free to get in, yeah we're taking advantage of all the free stuff Paris will give us, which isn't much. But yeah, we saw the Mona Lisa, the Statue of Venus, and a lot more art... most of which I didn't recognize. Didn't even get close to seeing half of it. The Mona Lisa was actually more impressive than I expected, I think because I had extremely low expectations thanks to all those people who have told me before that it's so underwhelming, soo thanks guys! The building itself was pretty unbelieveable, just gigantic. Later we bought some wine and went up to the steps of Sacre Coeur to hang out with our hostel friends and enjoy the beautiful views of Paris from the hill. Random Parisian man creeped us out substantially but it all worked out in the end. Tried to climb the Tower that night but ended up drinking more wine in our area with more people from our hostel, including a metal band from Holland who were just hilarious.
Next day, did the Arc de Triomphe and Museé d'Orsay, which was one of my favourite museums in Europe. A lot of famous works inside - Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, Courdet, etc - and the building, which used to be a train station, is gorgeous. Perfect for an art gallery with all the natural light from the glass ceiling. Went to the top of the Eiffel Tower that night, there are really no words to describe how awesome it was, so I'm not even going to try. We'll post pictures from home.
Day after that, went to Notre Dame, walked around inside but bailed on the line to climb it because it was so ridiculous. Sorry Quasimodo; I promise to visit you next time I'm in Paris (believe me, I am coming back here). Then we went to the Centre Pompidou, the largest collection of modern art in the world. Didn't get through it all but saw some very "interesting" stuff. Then popped in to the Conciergerie, which used to be a palace in the French court but eventually became a prison, and it was where Marie Antoinette and many others were held before they were executed. We saw a re-creation of her cell; it looked a lot more comfortable than what the peasants had to deal with. But I'm sure it still sucked. Last night, went out for dinner in our neighbourhood of Montmartre at a little brasserie, very nice and kind of affordable. From there, went back to Sacre Coeur with more bottles of wine and hung out with all the Parisians kicking off Bastilles Day, which is technically today, but there were fireworks all over the city for about 3 hours, it was amazing.
Today we will head to Versailles and spend our last night by the Eiffel Tower, watching more fireworks and trying to soak up as much of Paris as possible before we have to bid her Au Revoir.