Well last night was
a wonderful sleep after my busy day yesterday. I woke up around 8 in the
morning to find a Voxer message from about ten minutes earlier, so in hope to
catch him before he goes to bed (it was midnight his time) I sent a message
back. He was still up so we Skyped! It was so nice to be able to see him at the
beginning of the day. I am grateful to at least be able to see him at the end
of the day, but today made my day even better by seeing him at the beginning.
Right before he headed to bed and I went off to get ready he decided to play
the piano for me since it has been so long since he has had access to a good
piano. It was beautiful, I love listening to him play his little songs.
Well it was getting
to the time were we needed to say good bye and start my day. After a quick work
out and getting ready I headed out to where I was to meet up with Mel and Wes.
I found a nice bench and waited, while waiting I admired the Arc de Triomphe
and read the scriptures a little. Eventually they showed up and we headed to a
café to get some breakfast. I got a crepe with Nutella on it… I like nutella
but they put way too much on the crepe… While we ate it started to pour outside
and of course I didn’t bring my umbrella with me so I got a cheap one from a
little shop on the road…
Once done eating we
headed for the Arc, it was HUGE just like everything else in Paris. We were
able to climb up to the top where we over looked the street and got a really
nice view of the Tour Eiffel.
Next we headed to
the Catacombs. On the way I ended up having to get more metro tickets which
lead to a fun experience. As I waited to get up to the machine to get my
tickets a lady came up to me asking for help… in French. When I tried to tell
her I only spoke English instead of moving on to someone else she stayed with
me and tried to explain what she needed. She needed help with getting a pack of
ten tickets (that was what I needed too) when I showed her how I did it she
said no, too much (in French and very very poor English) I told her I don’t
know and she moved away saying Merci, I then went to get my tickets instead
then realized I need to get change and ones I was back so was she this time she
understood a little more of what she needed to do but she still needed me to
push the buttons for her, she showed me a cheaper ticket to get. Once she had
her tickets instead of saying Merci and leaving she then "helped" me
get my tickets by pushing the buttons for me and staying until I had them in my
hand. When we both had our tickets we said Merci and went separate ways. Even
though I could not understand her and she could not understand me we were still
able to communicate and help each other out. It was such a fun and great
learning experience.
I was finally
through and we were able to start on our journey again… of course until we
needed to wait for Mel to get more tickets :) Once to the area of the catacombs
we stopped at a Patisserie where we each got a Macaroon.. They are DELICIOUS!!!
I was still hungry
so I got a bagget (I know I spelled it wrong but I have no idea how to spell
it, it the long French roll thing) We then found the long line for the
catacombs to later learn that if we stayed in line the place would be closed
once we got there sooooo we left and headed for the Musee L'Amree where we got
to see the tomb of Napoleon and stuff about WWI and WWII. But of course we got
kicked out because it was closing so we found a bench and sat waiting for
Gladysue. There I made a new friend with a pigeon who I feed bits of my bread
too. While we waited we walked around the area. Once Gladysue was there we ate
and headed back to our hotels.
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