Day 5: Paris

Kelsi and I at the Eiffel Tower

The River and the tower

Carrie and Big's bridge from the final episode

Padlock bridge on the river

The Luvre

Louis Vuitton on St. Pauls

Laduree...amazing...

Arch de Triumph

Sparkling Eiffel Tower at night

Busy streets of Paris

From the base of the Eiffel Tower

We leave London on an early Eurostar train and go to Paris at 9:30 a.m. and I am so ready to sleep the entire way. The train was extremely comfortable and I slept the entire ride from London to Paris. We arrived in Paris around 1:30 p.m. and everyone was so excited to see the city. Our tour guide, Kathleen, met us at the train station and she was cute and friendly from the moment we met her. She took us to the hotel to check in and then we headed to the Trocadero to see the Eiffel Tower and take a boat tour of the city. I had a hotdog from a street vendor and it was amazing. It was a baguette with a hole punched through it, with the dog shoved into the hole. It is such a brilliant idea, and so so good. The tower was breathtakingly beautiful to see and stand beneath. I couldn’t believe how big it was in standing in front of it. The magnitude is never conveyed in pictures and no matter what you hear, the Eiffel Tower is NOT a disappointment. It was a magnificent sight to see. After some time with the Eiffel Tower, we went on our boat tour. We saw many buildings of Paris all along the river, including the Luvre, Notre Dame, and many more. We also got to see many fun things like the bridge from Sex in the City where Carrie and Big finally decide to be together in the final episode. There was another bridge where significant others put a lock on with their initials carved into them and you lock it on the bridge and throw the key into the river. Your lock, and also your love are forever on the bridge. Paris has many romantic traditions at every turn. After the boat tour we walked over to a big shopping district to see the Arch de Triumph and Louis Vuitton. We stopped by Laduree, the most wonderful bakery with the most amazing macaroons you have ever had in your life. They were seriously the best dessert of my life. I bought 8, and I’m still working on eating them all. After leaving that area in St. Paul’s we walked around went to dinner at a place called Jaja. The food was amazing and we paid very high prices to eat there. I had seafood that was absolutely amazing! After dinner we walked back to the Eiffel Tower because it is supposed to be breathtaking at night. Every hour it lights up and sparkles in the most brilliant light display ever. We walked up on it happening at 11 p.m., and after an hour of photographs and listening to street performers, we stayed to watch the lights go off one more time. We caught a cab back to the hotel for a few hours of rest.