Today has been a very relaxing day. We got up this morning at 10am and headed out to the Eiffel Tower. That thing is enormous! It cost €11.50 to get to the very top so we paid and headed for the elevator. The entrance to the elevator was packed full of people and I figured not everybody would get on but the elevators are huge and fit everybody that was waiting. We stopped on the 2nd floor and took a ton of pics then we got back on to get to the top. Let me tells ya…it was dang cold up there, and I don’t mean it is less then 70 cold…I mean it was probably in the 40´s cold. So we braved the coldness but got the payoff. Spectacular views!! I didn’t realize that Paris was so big. We stayed up there for about 20 minutes then got back on the elevator heading back down. We got off on the 2nd floor and took the stairs to the first floor where we had 2 hot dog wieners and fries and a coke for lunch. After we ate we got back on the elevator and went down to the bottom. I wanted to get some good pics of it so we headed over to Trocadero.
We then walked to the Arch de Triomph. It was only about a half mile away. We decided against paying the €7 to get to the top since we had just done the Eiffel Tower and it wasn’t even close to as high. We were sitting on the bench next to the exit from the inside when these 2 guys came over and each set a box down on either side of the door on the bench and left. Jake looked at the boxes then looked at me and said “I think we should move.” So we got up and walked away. When we looked back there was a security guard there with the boxes and then the 2 guys returned. So it turned out ok but it just looked suspicious.
After we left there we walked down a street called Champs-Elysees, which is basically just a road with nice shops. When we found the next metro stop we got on and headed for a train station where we could buy our tickets to Spain. It took a while of walking before we found the place to buy them but we managed to find it. We were hoping to get 2 night trains but since only 1 of them was available that will have to do.
After that we weren’t really sure what we wanted to do next so we headed back to our hotel. We stopped in the front lobby for a bit to send a quick e-mail to Jessie telling her that we booked our tickets and sent a few e-mails off to hotels in San Sebastian to hopefully find us all a place.
We were getting hungry at that point so we walked around looking for a place to eat. We had passed an Indian restaurant on the night we walked home late at night so we figured if we don’t find a place by the time we get there we’ll eat there. Well, we ended up having Indian food tonight and holy cow was that the best aloo ghobi i´ve ever had. We stopped on the walk back for some beer and now here we are almost 10pm and sleepy again. We leave for Normandy tomorrow morning so I suppose I should get to bed.
