Walking Around Paris

So once we finally got off the plane we had to take a bus to the terminal… Well after we finally got to the terminal Melanie ran off hoping to be able to meet up with her boyfriend for a few minutes before his plane headed back to Texas. So we lost track of her, we tried to follow but later decided to just go to baggage claim. So we went to the little desk thing and got our passports stamped!!! After waiting and worrying for a little while Melanie finally found her way back. We also figured out the wifi at the airport so I was able to check my facebook and Voxer messages (I am so grateful for them) After calming down from the little craziness we got a taxi (the first time I have ever been in a taxi) We left the airport and headed to Paris! Along the way we saw many things like:

 

Graffiti (it reminded me of home)

 

These cool statues (I still have yet to figure out what they are but when I do I will let you know)

And last but certainly not least…

 

THE EIFFEL TOWER!!!

And of course because I was watching everything fly by I started to get car sick… But luckily we got to the hotel soon after. Once we got our stuff in our room Gladysue, Wesley, and I (Mel wasn't feeling good) went to look for food. Eventually we decided on a little café where I got a ham and cheese sandwich.

 

I know not the usually idea when you think of a sandwich but it was really good still. Sadly knowing me I barely at half of it… Once we were done there we found this cute grocery store (which I think I will do a lot of my food shopping at) Then headed back to the hotel for naps and what nots.

After over two hours of naps we headed out to walk around. One of the places we ended up was the Luxembourg gardens. They were huge! I have never been somewhere like that before. There was grass and trees everywhere. In one part of the gardens there was an indoor/outdoor art gallery. After wandering around looking at the art we found the senat of Luxembourg (I think that’s what it is called…)

 

(Here is Gladysue in front of it, I'm not very good at getting pictures of me…Oh but here is a picture of me and my cousins in front of a fountain in the gardens)

 

… Anyways we traveled around the gardens a bit longer then decided to start heading back, along the way back we decided to go a different way and ran into the church from the movie The Da Vinci code (I can't remember the name sorry)

 

After that little adventure we decided to go on another and ate at this little brassiere(I think that is how it is spelled…) where a nice man helped us with it and he told us that usually only locals ate there which meant it was better quality and cheaper than the "tourist" ones. I ended up getting this pasta with tuna and ratatouille (mainly because of the movie:)…) Once done with dinner we headed back to the hotel, which was fun because it helped me understand the streets better. Finally back to the room I am well writing this and trying to figure out if I can sleep tonight…