Sunday, April 19, 2009
Day Three (April 14, 2009)
Today was fun but as of right now my feet are killing me. We started the day off at Notre Dame, also bright and early. We walked around the Cathedral while morning mass was going on. I lit a candle to the health of everyone in the family. We then climbed the tower, those are a lot of steps but less than I remember. We ended up getting to climb for free because we were under 26. It really was gorgeous up there. After Notre Dame we found a cafe and sat outside and got banana chocolate crepes. They were absolutely delicious. It was fun to just sit and people watch and it was a great spot because it over looked Notre Dame. After our crepes we made the walk along the river to Musee d'Orsay. The museum is cool but the Louvre is still my favorite. I thought that Van Gogh's Bedroom was at d'Orsay but I must have been wrong because I didn't find it. After d'Orsay we made out way back toward the Eiffel Tower to get tickets for our tour and I finally got my Fat Tire t-shirt. We then headed back to H&M to get my dress. We grabbed some food and we back to the hostel to charge my camera and grab more layers because we were going on a night bike tour. Now, for the best part of my trip so far, the night bike tour. Our tour guide was named Billy and he was amazing. Since I had said that I had done a Fat Tire Bike Tour before he asked Molly and I to be his very first "Ass women" (they had always been men). This just meant that we needed to pull up the rear. He told the group that if they could see our asses they needed to speed up. We were also definitely the youngest ones on the tour. We started with a really long ride to Notre Dame, then we went to an ice cream place. The ice cream was absolutely amazing, it is only made at that shop, every morning. You can't buy cartons of it and the flavors change everyday. Tonight it was all fruity flavors, I got strawberry and cocktail exotic. We ate it on a bridge and there was a band playing and an old woman dancing. I taped them as they played "What a Wonderful World" and the trumpet player sang (I will show you the video this summer if I see you, it won't fit on flickr). We continued on and saw some pretty churches and a couple cool bridges, then we rode our bikes into the Louvre at night. You have no idea how cool that is. Everything is lit up and then when we got to the pyramids it was even better. We then made our way to the river and boarded a tour boat and Billy had brought wine (it was part of the tour). So we sipped wine, talked, and took in the scenery of Paris at night. It was beautiful. Our tour was pretty much finished after that, we saw the memorial to Princess Diana over the bridge she died in and headed back to the Eiffel Tower just in time to see it sparkle. We ended back at the office and I grabbed a couple of brochures so that when Ian and I take the tour in London we get a discount. Molly and I then headed back to Eiffel because Billy had told us that at 1:00 am the back lighting of the Tower is turned off and it just sparkles and the tour didn't end until 12:15 so we weren't too far away from that. It started to rain while we were in Champs de Mars, but we found a covered bench and watched it from there. After it quit raining we wanted to go back to the hostel but little did we know that the metro quites running at 1:15 am, so we had to take a taxi. The taxi actually only cost 10 euro, which is a lot less than we both thought it would. Tomorrow we are going to Arc de Triomphe and we are finally going to go up in the Eiffel Tower!
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