Par-is Not for Us Day 2

Again this is Ja'Nae'....

Breakfast in our hotel was pretty good. It only consisted of croissants, some rolls with fruit, cereal, oj, apple juice, and yoghurt. I am not a big of breakfast and even less the items they offered. But the croissants were very good.

We decide that we are going to head out to the Eiffel Tower. But the lady at the front desk suggested that we take a bus to Opera and then venture out. We take her word for it and get on the bus. We get on the bus and insert our 'unused tickets from Beth's friend' and of course, they don't work. When are these damn tickets supposed to work. I am starting to miss the London Transport system at this point, but it's still early in the trip. Taking the bus was NOT worth the trip at all. We arrive at the Opera and try to go in. But it costs money to get in. Beth still thinks that we can get in despite the admission cost. So, we walk in and see there is not an area for those that don't want to pay to at least get a good photo. So we walk right out. We get out our handy dandy map to try and figure out how to get to the Eiffel Tower. We decide that we should go to the Louvre first and then the tower. As we are making our way, we find that we are in the middle of a shopping district. When I say shopping district I mean Prada, Gucci, Levi Strauss (Yes, Levi's are pretty expensive here.) We found a pretty cool monument that had some some crazy artwork. (You can check that out in our FB photos.) Five minutes later, we find this wonderful looking garden. The garden is called Le Jardin des Tuileries. The Louvre is west of it and wait, I think we are beginning to see the tip of the Eiffel. Oh, this is soo cool!!! We head to the Louvre to take a few photos and are amazed at how big it is. From the Louvre, we can see a little bit of the Eiffel, an arch that looks like the Wellington Arch, and the big one - Arc de Triompe. We head to the Arc de Triomphe first. But before we leave Jardin ( must walk through the Jardin in order to get to the Arc) we have a crepe with Nutella, Strawberry, and cream. Mmmmm. This crepe was the best crepe I have ever had and the first. But it was simply amazing. We head to the Arc and take a few photos of the scenery and finally arrive. We walk around and take a few more photos and make our way to the Eiffel. Once we get to the Eiffel, we are hungry again! All this walking just makes us more and more hungry with each step. Since the prices for food are a bit high, we decide to get a hot dog with fries. The hot dog bun was a baguette. The restaurant had a machine with a pole which would poke a hole on the baguette for the hot dog. I was really hoping for a real bun, but this will work.

On to the Eiffel Tower. Beth is soo excited about getting to go to the top and we proceed to get in line. As we stand in line, I look over and see a couple of army looking dudes....with machine guns...and their hands on the trigger. I wasn't sure if this is normal or they are here for a reason. We make our way even closer to the purchase our tickets and on the sign it reads ' Top floor is temporarily closed.' Oh darn, we won't be able to make it to the top. Oh yes, I'm afraid of heights and only doing this because I love Beth. Deep inside, I am soo very happy that we don't get to go to the top. We purchase our tickets and the top is still temporarily closed, but make our way to the elevator. The elevator can fit about 20 people on each level and there are two. It was weird to go up the Eiffel Tower at an angle and fast. We have a video on FB.

Being on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower is not all that bad. Words can't describe the experience, so you need to check out our photos and videos on our FB page.

To end our day at the Eiffel, we catch a rollerblader who is attempting to break a world record. There is a ramp that is built as high as the bottom of arch of the Eiffel Tower. At the end of the ramp is abig balloon looking thing with big styrofoam pieces. Oh my gosh, this guy is going to jump from the top and try to skate down. How neat. But the attempt that we saw, he was unsuccessful. We saw on tv that he succeeded. But that is purely an assumption because the news channel was speaking in French. Did I mention that all of the tv channels in our hotel room were French speaking except for ONE. It was BBC World. At least there was one English speaking channel.