The first thing we did was the Effiel Tower, we hiked up 668 steps to only the second level of the tower and then took an elevator to the very top. Wow. What a view of the whole city, it was such an incredible rush to look down and barely be able to see the people! We then descended and sat on the lawn in front of it to watch it light up, it was sooo spectacular to see it all lit up and gleaming but the coolest part was when it started to twinkle.....On the hour, every hour the whole tower would start twinkling for like fifteen minutes, it was the most magical thing I have ever seen (I even captured a picture of it!) I couldn't even blink because I was afraid to miss one moment of it!
The next day we went to the Palace of Versailles which is where Marie Antoinette and some other kings used to live. Wow again. The other half definitely knows how the live the high life, huge murals painted on the ceilings, golden statues, and satin furniture, so many rooms it makes your head spin (my mom's voice popped into my head and I know she would have said 'Who would clean all these windows?' haha). Then there was the gardens that streched for miles it seemed! The king's garden (the most impressive one) was closed to the public for some reason but I really wanted to see it so I tossed my bag to Liz and started to climb the high fence, I made it over (scraped my leg up doing so but well worth it) I took pictures for everyone inside and climbed back over, however, the guards started to come over to see what was going on and as soon as my feet hit the ground we all took off at a dead sprint until we had exited the gardens (so there could be a warrant out for my arrest in Paris but they will never catch me! haha)
On our way back from the Palace we swung by the Moulin Rouge and the Arc De Trimof to take some photos.
The next day we toured the Notre Dame, I was watching to see if there really was the Hunchback of Notre Dame but no Quasimoto...sad face. It was really big and really cool. We then trekked over to the Louvre Museum, long story short...we walked around that thing for six hours, lets just say if I never see another museum I will be ok with that haha. We saw the Mona Lisa, which was a little disappointing because it was tiny and behind this big glass with guards in the way. We also saw the Venus de Milo and the Nike Angel of Victory-the people who have their work in there really knew what they were doing because its pretty darn neat.
We are now leaving Paris for Rome....onto the Eternal City and some hot hot weather!
-abby
**make sure to check the photo albums (or in the near future) on the right hand side for albums of Paris pictures, click on them to enlarge them**
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