More Paris

This day in Paris started off a bit more challenging. After waking up too late again, we rushed to eat breakfast, and realized if we missed the next train to Paris we would have to wait over an hour for the next one. So that’s when we decided to run. It normally takes about 20 minutes to walk there, we ran there in about 8 minutes. As we ran we became further and further spread out on the sidewalk, so imagine you see one person run by laughing, and then 3 seconds later another, and then another… people were staring. One man said bonjour to all three of us, and Jasmine yelled bonjour back as she ran past. 
So we got there just in time, rushed to buy tickets, and realized that the train was not coming. It just never came… a strike or something was happening. Everyone was very annoyed, and they were all making the “French Face” as Stef calls it. It’s like you’re staring into the sun while smelling dog poo. Here are our attempts at the French Face. 

Daniel is still working on perfecting his French face. 

An hour later the train came and we took it to La Defense to go shopping in a little Christmas market. Jasmine over estimated her hunger and accidently bought 9 Euros worth of potatoes a-gratin, which the three of use slowly forced ourselves to eat over the next 2 or 3 hours. 

Then we went to Sacre Coure!

There were lots and lots of steps!

But what a beautiful view!

At the top everyone sits on the stairs, looks out over Paris and listens to live music. 

On the way down Jasmine was tired to Daniel dragged her back down the stairs. 

Then to Moulin Rouge!

Stef and Jasmine stood on this grate that had air from the metro shooting up out of it. This was an interesting pose. 

Daniel tried it too!

And again, we ended our day at the Eiffel Tower!!! This time we actually went to it, and all the way to the top!

From the second level

Going up!

From the very top!

so romantic…

Then we climbed back down…

…just kidding.
we took the stairs

On the first level they had little things build out of compact snow. Here is Daniel inside the mini-ice Eiffel Tower. 

We ended the day the way it started… at the train station waiting for a train. We soon realized the trains were still not running correctly, but this time the text train wasn’t coming for almost 3 hours! So Daniel’s dad was nice enough to drive into town and pick us up. We came home to an amazing dinner of wine, cheese, bread, and meats!

 The perfect ending to a wonderful day in Paris!