Paris Weekend

We arrived in London on our train back from Paris around 9 pm last night. The trip was a completely success. We left Friday morning from the house at 5 am, and had a full day in Paris. Day 1 we made our way over to the Eiffel Tower after checking in at the hotel. The weather was absurdly cold, but we still managed to climb the stairs 2/3 the way to the top of the Tower. It started storming as we got close to the top, and a beautiful rainbow appeared just under the billowing clouds. We Then proceeded to stay near the Tower for sunset and the lighting. There also happened to be an in-line competition being set up near us with music playing and small festivities. That provided entertainment for us while standing in the frigid cold weather.

Saturday we walked from the Arch de Triumph to the Louvre, and stopped at stores and shops along the way. We found a great market along the way full of fresh meats,seafood, jewelery, and trinkets. I somehow managed to make my way into a Cartier store to admire the watches the had in cases. Beautiful store, I felt quite out of place in a hoodie and jeans. We then made our way to Mulan Rouge, Thr Royal Opera house, then i split off from the girls and made my way to Paris' exotic fish aquarium. One tank alone made it worth the trip, it was a rather small aquarium, but they ahd the most gorgeous reef tank I have ever laid eyes upon. They also happened to have the largest lionfish I have yet to see with my own eyes. On the way out i walked under the Tower towards the city and there were some street performing dancers there. I video taped some of their acts and they provedto be quite entertaining for everyone.

Sunday we went to the church of St. Denis, then made our way to the Louvre. On Sunday all museums in Paris were free entry, so as you can expect everyone in Paris was in the Louvre at the same time. We didn't stay long in the museum as it was too busy to see much of anything. We then just wandered Paris for the remainder of the day.

Monday I went off alone to conquer all that Paris still had to offer. I went to Notre Dam in the morning after finding out the one museum left i wanted to see was closed on Mondays. Notre Dam was beautiful, but we have already seen prettier churches I think. After that i made my way towards Sacre Coeur. The church overlooks all of London from atop a mountain. Upon reaching the top, a few street performers tarted doing their acts on the stairs, and turned out to be some of the best acts I've yet to see. A football(soccer) player got up on top of the base rail of the stairs and started to juggle a ball, he then carried on to balance a ball on his head while climbing a light post, with all of Paris in the background. After watching both performers for around 2 hours i went behind the church to the small town like area. I ended up buying a painting of Paris from an artist there, then mademy way back down to the subway to come back to the hotel.