Greetings from PARIS

Hello!!

Greetings from the wonderful city of Paris France. I have been here 2 days now and am LOVING IT. Saturday, after a night in the Madrid airport with my amigos, I took an early flight into Paris.

After a quick nap and pizza lunch, Liz and I found our self in hunt of the Eifel Tower. While navigating across 3 lines of the metro and through the city we found the Eifel Tower and some creepy, yet nice, Egyptian men. We managed to loose the strange men in the crowd and were able to admire the tower in peace. We then wandered the area to the Invaildes and took some time to plan out our France weekend. We then had the genius idea of PICNIC at the Eifel Tower. Bread, wine, cheese, fruit and some KINDER RINOS made for a wonderful dinner and we saw the Eifel Tower SPARKLE twice!

Today we spent the morning admiring the MONA LISA at the Louvre and enjoyed the more religious Paris in the afternoon. Just as Paco claimed, the Sainte Chappelle was amazing with all of the stained glass windows. My only question is "how many pieces of glass are there in the Sainte Chappelle?" Creating that wonderful ness is clearly not a job for me. Maybe I would be better suited to be the one who breaks all of the glass into shards. I can drop a plate or cup with the best of them. Entirely different, yet amazing all the same, Notre Dame (home of Quasi Modo) was HUGE and the bells rining reminded me of the Disney Movie. After our adventurous afternoon we had NUTELLA CREEPES from a corner stand and shopped a little. (Don't worry Mom, I didn't spend that much.) Our evening was spent climbing 284 stairs (not an easy task after 2 lbs of Nutella Creepe) to the top of the Arc de Triomphe where Hitler once sent his troops goose stepping by during WWII . The evening was ended with an impromptu Spanish lesson on the 284 stairs down thanks to Liz and being made fun of by the French people behind us becuase we were walking too slow.

All in all I LOVE FRANCE. The people are rather evil, but sit that aside and you have a wonderful city. It is acceptable to drink bottles of wine in public places. Jewlery is sold by its weight. Bread and cheese can be found at every other street corner. Creepes stuffed with Nutella (chocolate and hazelnut in a spreadable form, kinda like peanut butter but BETTER) are on the other street corners.

But it is getting late and my internet cafe time is almost out so I am going to sign off for now. Tomorrow we are back to the Lourve and the Invalides and going up to the TOP of the Eifel Tower. Tuesday we fly to Prague, Thursday night to Berlin and Monday back to Madrid. Email me or facebook me but stay in touch.

Hasta luego,
Heather