Bonjour

The day was a Saturday, 11th of August and a near life changing event happened. It went like this.

 There were two very excited girls who had a planned a long weekend get away to Paris, catching the 6.55am Eurostar train from London. A car had been booked to pick them up from their accommodation. The alarms had indeed been set for 4.30, as the car was due at 5.15. But the alarms did not go off! So at 5.05 an a rap on their bedroom doors with a "out of bed?" from Jack caused quite a stir, throwing on clothes left right and centre they dashed out the door, with not a minute to spare. And that my dear friends is exactly what happenned this morning. A near miss alright, we would have had to purchase new train tickets, new Eiffel tower tickets, lose money on our hotel. Not a very nice way to start to tart the morning.

But after a milkshake and a muffin,grins were back on our faces because we were on our way to Paris, the city of love. Be jealous.

After sitting in these deluxe seats bigger than any you'll find on the planes, with amazing head rests and falling a asleep before we were out of the station. There are worse places to wake up, but travelling through the French countryside was not one of them. I was slightly depressed that I had missed our Descent below the ocean, but i'll console myself in that, well it's just a tunnel, right?

Arriving in Paris, saw us make our way to the loos, get the hair straightener and make-up outp, seeing as we hadn't had a chance to look in the mirror yet.

 Then feeling very confident we navigated the Paris metro system (train system) to get to our funky as hotel. You need to check it out! This hotel is flipping amazing! When I can post photos I shall. It is extremely retro with bright colours, mix and matched furniture, tasteful graphics drawn on the walls. Perfectly quaint! Fantastic for our short stay!

Check it: http://www.hotelcrayon.com/en/rooms.html

We then headed about 800 metres to the Louvre. Yes, you heard me, it is that close. It is amazing, the site is simply awe inspiring. Honest to goodness the Louvre Palace surrounding the louvre museum is so impressive. The architecture, history, colour, design and vibrancy is simply overwhelming. One of the most beautiful places I have ever had the pleasure to visit.

Our mission however was to find an atm for Jess, as she needed some euros-which pleasantly had a really good exchange rate at the moment with Aussie cash.  We then caught the metro to the Eiffel tower, with help from a lovely lady at the station.

Also just putting it out there that Jess and I have the phrase 'Approachable people that will not bite you, and yes, we'd love to take a photo for you' tattooed on our foreheads. At four different times today we were asked to take photos, and give directions... Oh yeh we helped another lost tourist!

 But back to the Eiffel tower, so we had accidentally when booking the tickets online, booked a 10.30 tour in the morning, and we wouldn't get in from London on the train until 10.17am. Their was no way we were going to make that right. So being slightly cruel, we played the ignorant and blonde tourists to this lovely lady at the tower, "Oh no, we thought that meant we could come any time after 10.30, oh no, what, what does that mean, oh no?" in my most whiny voice ever. The lady being a sweetheart was able to let us skip all the lines and go to the stairs entrance, we had to walk to level two. I think in her head she was secretly doing an evil laugh. Those stairs were killers! But what the heck we didn't have to buy new tickets, and we were still able to go up!

 We went up to the summit, it was spectacular! Seeing all the buildings and places that you only see in movies is so overwhelming. Not to mention the heat today, received quite a nice little bit of sun tan! We then walked down to the river and hopped on a river cruise. Probably wouldn't advise that, it was quite slow and their was no information provided on what we were seeing.

Next up we headed home, after Jess repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to use their stupid rentals bikes. DO NOT RECOMMEND THEM AT ALL!!

And then after she didn't bother saying bonjour to the train help lady, and getting the"I don't speak English go away" telling off from her. We got home, rested then headed out for yummy Italian dinner at Biancos.

 Lovely day but it's definitely nice to put my feet up now, very keen on finding a nail salon tomorrow!

Au voir.