Paris

On Saturday we woke up at 4:45 to head to Paris for the day. We took the Eurostar which is the train that takes the underground tunnel from London to the rest of Europe. The ride was about 2 hours long. When we first got to Paris we decided to just go ahead and do a bus tour so that we could make sure we saw everything that we wanted to. We saw the Arc de Triomphe from the bus. We didn't get off the bus though. The first place we went to was the Eiffel Tower. We grabbed some crepes from a stand right outside the Eiffel Tower for lunch. I had a chocolate one and Curtis had a chocolate and banana one. They were very good! Then we went to get in line to go up the Eiffel Tower. The line to walk up the stairs instead of taking the lift was much shorter so we did that. It was 328 steps to the first level and 669 steps to the second level. The view from there was pretty amazing! Paris is a very pretty city. It is filled with lots of trees, unlike London. I bet it was great during the summer. I stopped inside one of the stores in the Eiffel Tower and bought a photo. After that we went back down and took some pictures from the ground. The next stop on our bus tour was the Lourve. I bought a ticket to go see the Mona Lisa. Curtis waited for me because he has already seen it. To be honest it really isn't that impressive, but I am glad that I can say I saw it. The next stop on our tour was Notre Dame. We waited in line for awhile to be able to go up to the top of it. We shared another chocolate crepe while we waited in line. The view from the top of the church was great too! It was cool to see the Eiffel Tower from far away. We also saw the bell at the top. It use to take 16 men to ring it back in the day before they made a machine to do all the work. We went inside the church afterward too. Then we grabbed a quick dinner and headed back home on the Eurostar!