What does sewage, classical music, and the Tango all have in common?

Well, these are all things you can do in one day in the romantic city of Paris. When most people think of Paris, they think of the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Louvre. Well, what do you do after you've seen all those sights a half-dozen times? Well... you go underground.

We took a short tour of the Paris sewer system. It's really not overly interesting, but it still was a little bit. We saw how Paris has over 2100 km of sewer pipes (that's over 1300 miles) and pumps out over 1.3 million cubic meters of sewage water every day... that's equal to 35,000 35-ton trucks of liquid.

After our wonderful tour underground, we went to Saint-Chapelle, a chapel in the city center with beautiful stained-glass windows. Instead of taking the normal 10-cent tour, we waited until evening and enjoyed the chapel's beauty while Vivaldi echoed throughout the hall. A stringed quartet along with a harpsichord played classical music as the sunshine from the windows made a myriad of colors across the floor.

As the evening came to a close, we grabbed a pizza and took a stroll down by the river Seine. We enjoyed our cheap dinner on the bank of the river with all the others gathered around watching some tango dancing. Instead of pizza and a movie we opted for the more economical and romantic... pizza and a tango.