This weekend has been absolutely gorgeous in Paris! Sorry to all of you suffering through the rainy days in GA.Wednesday we decided to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower since it was a warm, sunny day and there was not a cloud in the sky! and what an excellent choice it was.
after our morning preliminary class (yes, I still have not started my actual classes yet!) five of us went to a cafe in Trocadéro for a nice, leisurely lunch; although, if you are at all familiar with dining out in Paris, you will already know that pretty much every meal is "leisurely."
After a delicious meal, we went across the street where you can get a great view of the eiffel tower from the opposite side of the Seine River. We hung out here for a while,
making sure everyone obtained the appropriate amount of pictures to send home. Specifically yours truly... shout out MOM!
After we were done in Trocadéro, we crossed the Seine and got our tickets to go up to the very top of the tower. Certainly a touristy thing to do, but something that I also felt like I definitely wanted to do once before the end of this.
After standing in many lines, we finally made it up to the very top! What a beautiful view. It's really cool to see things from that high because you get a whole new sense of the city. To be honest, I had no idea how large Paris is! It is a truly sprawling city!! But I also thought it was cool to compare it with the view from the empire state building because the all the lines are so much lower; there are hardly any skyscrapers here.
After our adventure to the top we still weren't done for the day. The next quest? Berthillon, a famous ice cream place in Paris. Despite the fact that we had just witnessed for ourselves how vast the city is, we decided to walk from the Eiffel tower to Ile St. Louis... a little over an hour later, we made it to our ice cream! Well deserved, I must say. But of course, it did not disappoint and was well worth the trek across the city! If you know me, you know that I am a huge sweets fan, so this was certainly the perfect way to top off my afternoon!
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