Saturday, June 23, 2007

Day 6 - Paris

Today was our first full day in Paris. We left the hotel around 8:30 and had breakfast (espresso, croissant and orange juice) at a local cafe. We then headed to the Louvre. We listened to the Rick Steves Louvre podcast while we went through the museum. It didn't have us doing the whole thing (I don't think I would have had the patience to do the whole thing at once). We saw ancient greeks statues, roman statues, Raphael, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory and da Vinci - all amazing.



We then walked down the Champs de Elysees towards the Arc de Triumphe. About halfway down we veered off to the right for lunch. Once at the arc we took one look at the line to the top and decided we go go with out. We spent some time in awe of the traffic going around and around. On our way back out, the line to the top was much shorter so we decided to go for it. After a long dizzy-ing climb we made it to the top. Holy Cow.



Eventually we headed back down and back towards the hotel, although this time we took the metro back. We napped/uploaded pics and generally relaxed for a while.



At about 6pm we headed out for a dring, dinner and the Eiffel Tower.

We had a drink at Georges in the Pompidou Centere and then headed over to the metro stop to catch the metro and train to the Eiffel Tower. Before going to the tower we headed in to the Trocadero neighborhood. This took us through the grounds for the Palais de Chaillot. This gave us some really great views of the Eiffel Tower. After dinner we had plans to go all of the way to the top. After we took one look at the line (it was 10:30pm) we decided we would head home instead. On the way we stopped for crepes and champagne.

Then on to the metro and back to our hotel...getting in around 11:30.

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