Monday, July 9, 2012

Forget sunset on the beach; sunset atop the Eiffel Tower is better!

Bonjour! Today was our first full day in Paris and it was awesome! We met up with Sarah and Jennae this morning at the Louvre. The building itself was just awesome! But the stuff inside was even cooler! We saw the Mona Lisa, the first written law, don't know the name at the moment, and Greek statues. The line to the Mona Lisa was crazy, there were so many people! We got lost a couple times trying to navigate the louvre, it's just so big. After that we decided to have lunch at a cafe. It was cool we sat outside and everything, only thing is we forgot to say tap water when we ordered sober ended up paying like four euros for a water! But we learned our lesson. From there we ventured back to our hostel to charge cameras or get new batteries. Then at six we met back up again to go to the Eiffel Tower. On the way there we saw a double decker train! It was so strange. Once we got to the Eiffel Tower the wait in line for the lift up was about four hours. We stood in line for about a half hour, in which Sarah got pooped on by a bird! It was the funniest thing! But after the half hour we decided to walk to the second floor and catch the lift there. It was a long hike! There were 669 steps total on just the way up! But it was so worth it! The view from the second floor was amazing! Then we waited about an hour in line to get all the way to the top. Once we got there it was sunset. So we got to watch the sun set from atop the Eiffel Tower! It was beautiful! On the way back down the Eiffel Tower it started to light up and that was super cool! By that time is was like ten and we were all starving because we hadn't ate since two. So we went to a hotdog/sandwich stand and had some pretty good food. We crossed the river and looked at the Eiffel Tower from there and it started to sparkle! It was sooo pretty! After that we headed home. At the tube station we had to say our final goodbyes to Sarah and Jennae which was sad, but hopefully we will see them again someday! Ok that's it for now, time for bed since its almost two am here!

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