Class was cancelled today because the professor took the first class into the city for a mapping project and wouldn't be back in time for our session. Heather and I bought day passes for the metro and did some exploring. Our first stop was the train station to book a night train to Carcassonne for Thursday-Friday. We leave tomorrow at 11pm and arrive Friday at 8am. After we took car of business we headed to the outskirts of town to la Grande Arche de la Defense but decided it wasn't worth going to the top because it was a little foggy and we weren't near much historical. We then came back into town and saw la Palais de L'Elysees, where Jacque Chirac lives. We checked out two churches, St Severin and St Eustache. St Eustache was doing some renovation but it had an interesting mix of a neoclassical and gothic fascade. St Severin was similiar to Notre Dame but about two blocks away and much less hectic. We also toured the Conciergerie, where prisoners of the Revolution were held before being taken to execution at Place de la Concorde. At the end of the evening we travelled to the North side of town to the Basilica Sacre Couer on Montmartre. It was dusk and we were able to see it with the lights on outside, it was pretty incredible inside and we were able to listen to a nun-choir while we walked around. Tomorrow we have class in the afternoon and leave in the evening so we're going to do some laundry and get ready for a weekend along the French Riviera.