Paris 8/27/2008

We slept in a little today because we both slept so horribly last night. The window overlooking the street that seemed so nice when we first arrived proved to be one of the worst things about the room. It didn’t get quiet outside until late in the morning. It wasn’t until probably 6AM that some giant robot came thundering down the street eating cars and other smaller machines. At least that’s what it sounded like. Kelly said she thought it was a garbage truck, but I’m pretty sure it was a giant machine eating robot.

The first thing we did was walk take the metro to the Eiffel Tower. There were ridiculous lines to climb it, so we just hung out in the park in front of it for a while and ate lunch. From there we walked around some more across the river to the Arc du Triomphe. It’s bigger than I remembered. The traffic circle around it is ridiculous and I would be so scared to drive into it. We went through the tunnel under the street to the Arc and walked around underneath it, but didn’t go up. We then walked down the Champs Elysees. The side walks were real big because there were a million stores with a billion people. We kept walking all the way down till we got to La Place de la Concorde. I remember this from when I came here in third grade. It has a big ol’ obelisk and fountains. We continued down to the Louvre. Once again, we chose not to go in, but walked around the outside and saw the Pyramid (Kelly and I are really deep thinkers and love looking at modern architecture and stuff). It was right around sunset and was real pretty.

We killed a little more time and ate dinner in the park in front of the Louvre. We decided we would broaden our horizons and ordered a beer with the most French sounding name we could find which was Panache. It would probably be my sister Mary’s favorite beer ever because it tasted just like yellow Sprite. Afterwards we walked back to La Place de la Concorde and I tried to retake the picture of my family and grandparents that was taken 15 years ago as best I could…

Today was good because we got to see alot of the city and alot of the big famous stuff. I liked it because I got to reminisce on the family trip from when I was in third grade yet the company wasnt nearly as annoying this time around.