Weekend in Paris!!

Saturday morning we woke up super early and took the Eurostar high speed train to Paris. When we got there we immediately had an appreciation for the UK and their native language being English, we couldn't really figure out where we were going because all of the signs were in French. We checked into our "hotel" (some things really are to good to be true when it costs 30 pounds a night) and went straight to the Eiffel Tower. When we got there I almost cried I was so excited. Often when a landmark has such hype about it, when I finally get there to see it I don't think its as grand or beautiful as it looks in movies and pictures. Well I'm here to tell you that the Eiffel tower lives up to its reputation. It is huge and grand and beautiful!! We took about 100 pictures at every angle so I'll spare you the many pics and only post a few. We then went to a cafe near the Eiffel Tower and had lunch where we had our first interaction with a rude French person... trust me they live up to the reputation. After our terrible lunch experience we walked under the Eiffel Tower and got the BEST crepes I've ever had, I even ordered in French (brought back some of those early high school years of French.) After we walked to the grass fields that are right under the tower and laid there and took more pictures. That night we went out to a couple of different bars, but with each drink costing 15 euros we opted to for two and took the metro home.

Sunday morning we took the metro over Notre Dame. Notre Dame is amazing!!! It is so big and sits up on a hill over a river right next to the lock bridge. We first had le petit dejune at cafe Esmerleda (Hunchback of Notre Dame reference for ya). We then went into Notre Dame and acctually got to go inside while service was going on! It was so cool. After Notre Dame we walked over to the Lock Bridge and took a bunch of pictures and tried to guess the stories of the people who had put their locks on the bridge, that was fun. Next we headed to les champs d'elysses. It is a street I have always wanted to walk down and it reminded me alot of Madison avenue and many other streets throughout the world that have large designer stores. The flagship Louis Vuitton store resides there and it is the biggest thing I have ever seen. We also saw this huge golden gate guarded by these attractive well dressed boys... it was the ABERCROMBIE STORE. Insane. It was the nicest looking abercrombie store I've ever seen. Once we walked all the way les champs d'elysses we stopped at L'arc de triumph. There must be some mysterious way everyone in Paris crosses the street to get to it because we had no clue and had the pleasure of almost dying 5 times trying to cross multiple lanes of traffic going multiple directions. Oh and I was wearing heels. We then bought tickets and climbed all 270 steps to the top of L'arc de Triumph. When we got to the top we all gasped because it was one of the most beautiful views we had ever seen!! After taking hundreds of pictures there we shopped a little more before having a fabulous dinner at a pizza resturant right on les champs d'elysses. Perfect ending to a great trip!