Paris October 6,2007

We left London at 6:30 am to catch the train to Paris. We took the "Chunnel", it was interesting to go 300 km an hour, any underpass we went through the pressure in the train would change enough to pop our ears. When we were beside a divided highway we passed cars going the same direction like they weren't even moving. The front of the train was covered in bugs, and I am pretty sure maybe a bird ?

After a 3 hour train ride we arrived in Paris (their time) at 10:30 am. We also got a 1 day unlimited metro pass for Paris. We took the metro (subway) from the station Gare Du Nord to Notre Dame.

From Notre Dame we took the metro to the Eiffel Tower. We paid 4 eros each to climb to the second level of the tower, a total of 668 steps. We had such a beautiful sunny day (we lucked out again)

I love this photo of Scott because we did spend so much time at the edge looking down and around, just like little kids.

From the Eiffel Tower we took the metro to the Arc De Triumph, and walked down the Champs De Elysees. Of course Louis Vuitton and all the other shops were along the Avenue, this photo is about as close as I will get to owning anything Louis Vuitton (a small purse was about 600-700.00 Canadian $)

We took a small detour off the Avenue Champs Des Elysees to have lunch at a small cafe and then walked down the Seine River. It was very beautiful, very Paris like.

The Place De La Concord (basically a traffic square) besides the traffic has this gift from Egypt and of course the now standard Farris wheel (besides the London Eye, Manchester also had a large Farris wheel too).

At the end of the Champs des Elysees is the Louvre, this is grounds outside the museum where Scott and I relaxed for a while after our hike down the avenue.

The Louvre was having a free admission night the evening we were there. Of course we saw the Mona Lisa and the famous tome of Mary Magdalen from The Da Vinci Code (this we were very disappointed in - but then again don't base everything off of a Hollywood movie) The reason we were disappointed in the inverted pyramid was that we had to leave the Louvre to see it, and it was surrounded by shops (kinda like a mall).

We basically got to see everything we wanted to in Paris as we only had 10 hours there