Day 32... Second Day in Paris

We woke up this morning and left the Hostel to find a bakery for breakfast. We had missed breakfast because we don't know what time it is. The entire Trip we didn't know what time is was in Paris. Did it change from Germany? We don't know. And to make it more confusing in our Hostel there were two clocks with two different times. So confusing. But anyways to the bakery we went! There were tons! We picked one and we all bought croissants. I can honestly say these were the best croissants I have ever had in my life. So buttery good! We sat at these little tables to enjoy our french breakfast while we were in Paris. I took pictures of Nicole and Andrew with their yummy yummy croissants. They too agree that these were the best croissants we have ever eaten. Here Nicole bought a baguette to later have a baguette fight in front of the Eiffel Tower.

After breakfast that's where we headed. We had seen the Eiffel Tower last night but we wanted to see it in the day. (I'll have to admit it's way better to see at Night!) Once we got to the Eiffel Tower we had to take tourist pictures because it's fun. We found this place that was kinda hidden from other people. This was so we could be ridiculous and not have people stare at us. We took pictures of us pushing the Eiffel Tower, Jumping pictures, cute pictures, and Nice pictures. Unfortunately we didn't have any taken of all three of us in front of the Tower. Oh! I forgot to mention. When we woke up we were so confused because the SUN was shinning! What is this? It has been so snowy and cold and gray in Germany that we were surprised to see Sun. It was beautiful. The entire day I was singing "Blue Skies" by Ella Fitzgerald. I loved it. Here are some of the Pictures we took on this day.

Two Cuties in front of the Tower on a Beautiful day.

Jumping Picture! Look at us go!

PUSH!!!!!!!!!!

After spending a couple hours here we wanted to go to the Arch de Triumph. It is fairly close to the Tower. On our way there there are men everywhere that have Key chains and Eiffel Tower everywhere. We thought it cost a euro for each key chain, but then a man came up and said he would give us four. We all bought key chains for souvenirs. This ties in later to the last day of our trip. We saw the Arch but didn't go under it. We think it cost money? We aren't sure...

After taking a couple pictures we headed to Notre Dame. Ok, this place feels like it's on the other side of Paris. And we are poor so we are going to walk everywhere. We did just that. WALKED EVERYWHERE. I think I got the best work out here. We knew we had to go past the Louver to get to Notre Dame. Yeah. That took forever. Luckily it was sunning so the walk didn't bother us to much. We walked down this little street where there were artists painting. It was so fun to see. I wanted to buy one but then I had to think about traveling back home.

Notre Dame is BEAUTIFUL!

Look at that blue sky. I mean it was wonderful to tour Paris in this weather! I love it!

We went in the Church and toured about. Outside of the building was a man dresses at Quasimodo. You could pay to take a picture with him. I kinda wanted to. But decided against it. One he actually was kinda creepy and two I'm Cheap.

We walked around the church and found a little park and we sat on a park bench. Nicole started feeding the birds with left over baguette. We had so many birds around us it was insane. Andrew started scaring them. I just sat and laughed. Our legs are so tired from walking around all over Paris. When we sat Nicole was saying we could go see some other building. Andrew already fell asleep and I was quite comfortable. Nicole gave up and we just laid in the sun till it was time for dinner. When we got up we almost wanted to fall down. Our poor legs... We couldn't find a restaurant which are actually really hard to find. If you want coffee and a good smoke that's easy but actual food... difficult. So we found a SUBWAY. It kinda stinks how we come to Paris and eat American food. Oh well. It's cheap and easy. We went back to the hostel which had really good Internet. I got to facebook and Nicole had to get started on finding out how to get back to Germany. She had her parents try to pull a death in the family but apparently Germany doesn't care if family members die and you need to get back. It worked in the States for Nicole but not here. Poor Girl. So she was up really late trying to figure out how to get back. Andrew being the nice cousin he is fell asleep at 7:30 p.m. Nicole was up till 1 in the morning trying to figure this out by herself. She ended up buying a train ticket back. It was a good price but a long trip. Once we laid down we were out. Today was a good day.

TOMORROW'S PLANS:

The Louver!

PARIS OPERA HOUSE!!!! Da da da da da daaaaaaaa

Amire,

-Courtney