Meet Me in Paris!

Although our trip to Paris was a few weeks ago, it was an amazing trip! We spent 3 nights in Paris, our hostel was near the Republique. Our first full day there was spend walking around the city.

We took the free tour and started at the Saint Michelle fountain and saw Notre Dame, the Siene River, the Opera house that inspired the story of the Phantom of the Opera, the Louvre, the gardens, Place de la Concorde, and a few other places.

After the tour we walked down the main street (Ave des Champs Elysees) to the Arc de Triomphe then to the Eiffel Tower!!! We took tons of pictures of course and found out that the Eiffel Tower was built for the world fair back in 1889.

We wanted to go to a nearby supermarket and get a baguette, some cheese and wine and have a little picnic in the park, but it was raining so we went to a little french restaurant where I had some delish French onion soup :) and Ally had a ham and cheese sammy. We waited around for it to get dark so we could see the Eiffel Tower at night!!! We always imagined it would be yellow lights like from all the pictures. But this night, the base was red with a few blue lights and the top was white. We arent really sure why, but it sure looked cool!

Then.... IT STARTED SPARKLING! Oh my gosh, it was the coolest thing! First of all, we were in Paris, second, we were at the Eiffel Tower, and thrid.... it was sparking! Holy smokes, it was freaking awesome! You can easly hear my excitement in the video :)

After walking around all day and the rain, we decided to sit down at a bar and people watch and have some wine. We went to the bar where the pub crawl from the tour was starting, so we met some people from America who were also on our tour. We were then convinced to join the pub crawl and ended up going to a few different bars around Paris. It wasnt the best pub crawl, but we met some fun people! We then called it a night and headed home.

Paris was amazing, we couldnt wait for day number 2!!!

XOXO