Today I went to the Montparnasse district. I think it's a district, I'm not sure what else to call it. It's called Montparnasse. Anyways, that's a very non-touristy part of Paris. That's where the Montparnasse Tower is located which is the 2nd tallest tower in Europe. I didn't take a picture of it though cuz it was only 56 stories and it looked pretty ordinary. The French hate it. It's kind of ugly I guess. I hear it will be getting a face lift. Anyways, I went to two museums today. I went to the Rodin (pronounced Roh-dan) museum. He was a sculptor from the late 19th and early 20th century. He's probably best known for his sculptures, The Thinker and The Gates of Hell. He was going to make The Gates of Heaven as well, but he died before he could do it. I wonder why he did the Hell gates first. Anyways, don't open those gates! I probably never would have heard of The Thinker except for the countless times I saw it in Looney Toons cartoons which was my main interest for seeing it in person. Sorry to disappoint you all. I'm not that big an art lover. The second museum was the Bourdelle (sp?) museum who was a student of Rodin. I actually went to that museum first. This one is definitely off the beaten path, but he has some pretty cool sculptures. Some are really huge. An interesting similarity between both artists was they would make smaller sculptures of what they desired to make and then they made them progressively bigger until they made one that was the size they wanted so the museums had a couple of some of the sculptures but just different sizes. There were a few Thinkers at the Rodin museum. Anyways, if you want to check out what Paris life is really like without tourists, go to Montparnasse, but don't expect to get any help in English. They have some more reasonably priced restaurants there. I had a pretty good lunch for 10 Euros. The Bourdelle museum is in Montparnasse. Rodin is not exactly in Montparnasse but is in walking distance from it. It's next to the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed.