All is good here! I am just one the train back from a great weekend! Last week was a short work week because the kids did not have school! Lucky them! Unfortunately we had teacher trainings boo! I got sent home early because I was sick and they told me I looked like crap! I started thinking this is not fair! How is it the kids manage to get me sick right before I go to Paris on a long 3 day weekend! None the less I was determined to not let it ruin my weekend!
We flew to Paris Friday night got in about 11:30pm. We had no idea where to go so we decided to start with the information desk. Unfortunately, the information desk was absolutely NO help. We asked where our hotel was or how do we get there and the response we got was it’s in Paris. I was like no shit are you Sherlock Homes! Needless to say we were screwed and I was not feeling well! So we decided to just take a cab . Ouch that was one expensive cab ride, we will not be doing that again!
The next morning we got up early and headed to the Eiffel Tower, this was the meeting spot for the Fat Tire Bike tour we were going to take, this is when we first got to see the Eiffel tower. To be honest our first impression was what is so big about that. I was not very impressed, at that point we could only see the top of the Eiffel tower as we got closer and could see the whole thing I decided it was pretty cool.
The bike tour was great we got to see a lot of different places and it helped us plan the next day. We got history about many different buildings. After that bike tour we wondered around got dinner at a cute little restaurant and relaxed. We loved this restaurant because the waiter was funny! He was trying to help us speak French. He told us what something was and then would come back and quiz us! He was very patient with us! After dinner we went on the night bike tour! It was beautiful! We got to see the whole city lit up. We did some intense bike riding as the tour guide said we needed to be ready for some class 5 rapids. The taxi’s and other drivers on the road were aggressive and we need to be ready to stick together and be aggressive back! It was a beautiful tour! We ended the tour on a boat tour that went up and down the river allowing us to really enjoy the city lights. While on the cruise they gave us several glasses of wine! J We finally made it home late that night went straight to bed.
The next morning we got up early and started touring. We first went to the Louve which was massive. It was extraordinary, I got to see the Monalisa and many other beautiful pieces of art. We only made it through 1/3 of the museum because we wanted to see many other things. We then went to the open air market. It was an interesting market selling everything to underwear to meat to bread and flowers. The actual butchers were there with whole chicken heads and feathers still on and even large piece of whole cow. We spent the rest of the day going to Notre Dame and the Army Museum. Then we went to dinner and went to the Eiffel tower. By the time we got to the Eiffel tower it was rainy and stormy, but we waited in line and went to the top of the Eiffel tower it was BEAUTIFUL!
The following day we flew back to Germany. I never thought I would say this but it felt good to be back in Germany! I love it here!
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