Terri and I didn't know which way to go once we got off the metro at the Eiffel Tower, of course we walked in the wrong direction, but I soon spotted the tower behind us.
Up close, the tower is much bigger then I expected, of course there was about as many tourists selfieing as I expected. Around the tower, everywhere you looked someone was trying to sell selfie sticks, mini Eiffel Towers, bottles of wine, cheap crap that you don't need basically.
Terri and I found a quiet bench and had our bread and cheese picnic, with the Eiffel Tower in front of us. It was a prefect Paris moment! :)
We walked along the river, seen many amazing sights, and soon found a wonderful man selling meat on a stick.
He had this really neat barbecue, with meat on a skewer. We had to wait about 10 minutes for him to cook fresh ones, but we didn't mind. It was served in a bun with fries on top. Mmm...
We walked on further, to the Louvre, by now it was around 4, so we didn't go in. Just hung out, in the area to relax. Finally, both to tired to keep going, we started heading back to the place we were staying. On the way, Terri's phone died, so we kinda got lost. Took awhile to find our way, it was well past dark by now, and about 8 when we finally got back.
Had crappy, overpriced burgers for dinner, because there was not many other options for food in the area.
We brought wine and candy back with us, and hung out with our host for the night.
The next two days we explored Paris quite a bit, we moved to our hostel, which was super cute, and easy to find, I went to cool cookware store; E. Dehillerin and Terri went to Shakespeare & Co. We saw Notre Dame, went on a free walking tour around the Montmartre area for nearly three hours, and cooked pasta for dinner to save money. ;) On the second to last day we went to the Louvre and probably spent around 8 hours there. Needless to say, that was a long day. Terri loved it. I enjoyed it to of course, and I'll probably thank her one day for spending so much time in there, seeing all the famous statues, paintings and artifacts.
The last day in Paris we went to Versailles, I really enjoyed it, (lots of tourist though) but when we went outside into the garden, we couldn't go back inside, unless we wanted to wait in line again. Have to eat our pasta cold, I guess. The gardens were lovely, we walked all the way around the cross shaped lake, which took forever! It was beautiful though. That night at the hostel, our last night in Paris, I dragged Terri out to see the city and the Eiffel Tower at night, it was well worth it! So beautiful. Plus, we had a hot crepe with lemon and sugar on it! Wonderful way to end our Paris adventure. :)
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