Today started out with a metro ride to the Eiffel Tower to meet up with the bike tour group for the day. Once we met there we walked to the Fat Tire Bike Tours office and got our guide and our bikes. The tour started out riding by Louis the XIV Military School which was quite large and still had bullet holes from WWII. Something interesting about Louis the XIV was that he ruled for 72 years and was quite the ladies man with over 200 mistresses. We continued our tour by going by the musee de l'armee which holds Napoleon's remains in a giant tomb. Later we crossed the Ponte Alexandre Bridge, which was quite magnificent and held 4 statues representing things such as war and acceptance of peace or something like that.
We pushed on and stopped by an obelisk from Egypt that is over 3330 years old that contains directions of how to put it up. After that we got some lunch at a spot in a park near the Louvre. Once our bike tour ended most of us ended up picking up a t-shirt from the shop and then we left for the museum of modern art. This museum was quite interesting with all of its different types of art, but this was not one of my favorite museums to date.
Once we finished touring the modern art museum we broke up again and set out to do what we wanted from there. A few of us just made our way back to the hotel and got a kebab for dinner and hung out before we went back to see Paris at night.
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