Centre Pompidou and Eiffel Tower

Today we went to Centre Pompidou, which is a big see through building that houses a lot of the art space in Paris. There's a Museum of Modern Art, a library, and some exhibition space. There's also a restaurant, a gift shop, and a kids playground. It's got some giant escalators on the outside that let you travel between floors. We went in to see the Edvard Munch exhibit. It was really interesting. There was a big timeline outside the exhibit that told us about his life, and then inside was split into themes. We looked at the different stages of his artistic career, from when he was 17, until he died. A lot of the paintings were very similar, with a slight change in how he approached them. I thought that this idea was very cool. He painted the same picture, with a different pattern or method, and then linked them together in a series. Once we were finished looking at his exhibit we went to the find some food at a local restaurant and then hopped on the metro. We took the metro all the way to the other side of the city to see the Eiffel Tower at night. It's very similar to the CN Tower in Toronto, where you're up very high and there's a glass area that you can take pictures of the city from way up high. The two other levels are interesting, with shopping on the second level, and a skating rink on the first level! The tower itself is pretty interesting with the metalwork and the way the lifts work. There's two ways to go up the tower, you can take an elevator or walk up the steps. If you walk up the steps (there's 602 of them) it will take you to the second floor, and it's about 10€ cheaper. If you take the lift, it will take you to the top, but you have to take two sets of lifts. They really pack people into those lifts! When we got to the top, there's a banner around the top that shows you which country you're facing, and how far away it is. Then there's a big line up at the top to get back down and there's not a lot of space at the top room. Once we took our pictures, we lined back up and went down the two lifts.