Day 5: Paris

Tuesday, May 21, 2008


The start of our day seemed to foreshadow the next leg of our trip. We planned what time we needed to catch the train to the airport in order to make our flight to Paris but the train was 20mins late so we missed our flight. Luckily we were able to catch the next flight without much trouble.

We arrived in Paris in the early afternoon and took the metro to our hotel. Wow. Disgusting. It was one of those places where I was scared to walk on the floor without shoes on, the light in the bathroom was flickering and it felt like a big risk sleeping in the bedsheets. The only redeeming value of this place was CNN on TV. The great think about Paris is that people stay out so late so we didn't get back to our hotel before midnight. We tried to stay out as late as we could handle just so we didn't have to spend anymore time in our hotel than necessary.

Our first stop was to Les Invalides and Napolean's Tomb. Fascinating. I really need to learn more about him and especially about Josephine.

From there we walked to the Champs Elysees. We did some window shopping and couldn't resist going into the hugest Sephora we'd ever seen where sales people were dancing on the counters. It was fabulous. We went to the Arc de Triomphe, climbed to the top and took in the views of the city. Then ate at McDonalds because we were craving it (I wish I were joking).

We headed over to the Tour Eiffel which is my favorite thing in the entire world. It was too late to go to the very top so we opted to take lots of photos and sit on the grass and watch the sparkly lights. There were so many people out on the grass and I was pretty sure an orgy was going to break out at any moment. Hilarious.

On our way home we stopped for Nutella crepes. Heavenly!