Paris in a day

Hey everybody,

What would you do if you only had a day?

That is what we asked ourselves Saturday night as we walked through the gay district of Paris in heels and fancy clothes trying to find a restaurant that was not there anymore actually 2 of them weren't there and we ended up hiking over 3kms and then getting a taxi to Four Seasons for dinner which was incredible.
We had a wonderful day, the train that we got to Paris showed up at around 3:00pm we tried to check in but found the rooms would take an hour and a half to be ready, luckily there was a really cool courthouse in the middle of the lobby that we sat out and had some snacks and a few beers then when our rooms were finally ready we changed into nice clothes and headed to the street to get a cab to a wine bar, which was our main goal. What is the one thing that you have to do in Paris?
WINE and CHEESE.
So what'd we do? We went to get wine and cheese, one bottle and cheese plate at one restaurant, got a taxi to the next (finding out it was closed so we walked down the street a little) and had another bottle of wine, before we headed to Four Seasons for dinner where we had a few drinks and a bottle of wine and a delicious dinner! Listening to the most beautiful Pianist playing all night.

Best part here... We went home and changed and I urged everyone that we needed to see the Eiffel tower at night when it was all lit up! And oh did we see it!! Did you know that the Eiffel tower sparkles at night?!? Google it, Youtube it! It was amazing that it all was sparkling like a diamond for like 10 minutes, its amazingly awesome!

We took a taxi and walked right underneath it with all the lights on then went around the corner to have aa drink and people watch basically then home and while Mel passed out on the bed, Dyl and Wade stayed up and had a few more drinks when I went to bed.

The next day wasn't as early as we thought BUT we did really well...
Did the super tourist Bus Tour which is awesome by the way, got off at the Louvre and walked around, walked through the garden and people watched, stood next to the glass ceiling and looked into the museum which I would have died to go into but its one of if not the largest museum in the world and that would take a day in itself!
Got back on the bus and headed over to Notre Dame, that place is crazy! The detail and the amazing structures they built on there, there was a 3 hour queue though to get into the front door so we couldn't do that either... But its fine.
After that we stuck on the bus for a little bit, trying to find a nice place to eat. We found a Cafe at the Intercontinental which sits looking into a square where the Academic Nationale des Musique is which was a great building.
Other then that we sat on the bus and moved around a little, went to the Eiffel tower after lunch and we waited in line for about an hour to go to the top, it was so cool! Put that on your bucket list if you haven't already... unless your scared of heights then don't do it... or at least don't do the Summit just do the 2nd floor cause its considerably lower then the Summit. It was amazing from the top, you could see all of the courtyards in most of the buildings over the incredible large and awesome city. Seeing the Louvre from that high just cements how huge it really is!
Also a must see.
Something strange that I got a picture of, when you imagine the Eiffel tower you imagine this crazy building, maybe some shops around it, lots of people, etc... but... we saw a bunny. He had a leash, was very cute and was sitting on a square stool with his carrot and bowl of water... yup, a bunny, thats weird, I even took a picture because it was so weird.

anyways.

We pushed it a little getting home and having some food and a bottle of wine in the courtyard of the hotel, grabbed out already packed bags and headed to the airport where we were almost an hour early for the flight but it was easy, etc.

We are now in Dublin, headed to the pub for a few drinks and some good snacks before bed, crawled into a comfy comfy bed and passed out really quick!

Can't wait to walk around... and since my camera lens broke guess where our first trip is today? the 150m down the road to CameraCity where I'm buying a new lens or two! Can't wait to walk around.

But it'll be the longest two days ever until my parents, friends and my man show up tomorrow! Can't wait to see them all and excited to spend some awesome time in Dubin.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers,


-Hero