Bonjour Paris!

We got to Paris yesterday morning at about 11am (it was an all night flight). The weather was beautiful yesterday, and was supposed to be overcast and rainy this weekend. We are in Paris until Monday evening. So, as soon as we arrived, we stopped by our hotel, Hotel du Commerce, which is located in the "Latin Quarter"--awesome place with cafes, book shops, restaurants and La Sorbonne University. It's right in the city, so we've been able to walk almost anywhere; we are a 10 minute walk to Notre Dame and a 20 minute walk to the Louvre Museum. The Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe are a little farther away so we took the metro there. Taking advantage of the nice weather yesterday, we did a full walking tour of the city and saw major sites like Notre Dame, the Seine river, Luxembourg gardens and the palace, the Louvre Museum, and Tuileries gardens. We did not actually enter any buildings, but we did go to the Eiffel Tower and climbed to the 2nd floor (1,652 stairs). It was awesome!! We were just in time to watch the sunset. Sunset from the Eiffel Tower=epitome of romantic moment. This day concluded 48 hours of traveling and touring New York City and Paris with only 4 hours of sleep on the plane in between. Hooray for a bed and a good night sleep!!