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This is a continued stream of thought from the previous blog... so please ignore the day's lapse. So after John and Lauren left the group we traveled onto the Musee de L'Armee, and Napolean's Tomb. When Napolean died he wasn't kidding. His remains were placed in a tin coffin, surrounded by two mahogany coffins, placed in a lead coffin, placed in an onyx coffin, placed in a finished wood coffin that resembled a sleigh mounted on about 10 feet of finished marble. So in all Napolean's attempts to prove his manhood and importance were well represented in his coffins, although unfortunately for him, his original gray coat and hat were displayed nearby. The coat looked like it might have fit Asa, our 5 foot 92lb. classmate. Oh Napolean, we know your secret. We discovered that when you feel like the heat might make you die, marble is very soft and very cool, so we lounged in the tomb for quite some time. We then ventured on to the actual part of the museum. We all waited while Taylor and Eric searched for the WWII section of the building and then when it could not be found we focused our exploring on the Ancient Armies section. It was full of suits of armour ranging from full grown large men, to small suits maybe for 10 year old boys. There were broad swords, muskets, long rifles, hatchets, maces, and cross bows, Heather enjoyed the cross bows the most since she once owned a nerf cross bow. Eric and Taylor were most intrigued by the sword gun, which had a blade of considerable length and on one side a gun barrel was attaced with a trigger in the hilt of the sword. Ricks Steve's guide to Paris advised that the musem took two hours for women and three hours for men, and he was pretty right. Once everyone met up again, we all returned to the FIAP for dinner and fun. Malhalo from the Plastic People of the Universe. I'm Annie Reeves and you're not.