The rest of our time in Paris

We are glad to say that weather.com was not accurate on the weather report. Our second day in Paris was BRYCE’S BIRTHDAY!! To start the day, we had breakfast at a little café, ordered 2 croissants and a café au lait (pronounced calf-ay oo-lay). Bryce ordered a café and received a shot of espresso. When we looked in my little French words, we learned that a café is just espresso but the café au lait is like a latte. We soon began to love Paris, and learn that we were more clueless to the French language than what we thought. We walked inside Notre Dame and waited for about an hour to go up to the Towers of Notre Dame which was awesome! We almost just left because the line was taking forever and we didn’t know if it would be worth it, but it totally was. The towers were like a symbol of medieval Paris (and the hunchback Quasimodo’s home). We learned all about Notre Dame, thanks to a brochure of the history in English, and read that it was a project that took nearly 200 years to complete! It was a long haul to the top in a tight spiral staircase, but an incredible view of Paris, the Seine River and the Eiffel tower at the top. After Notre Dame, we walked to the Louvre and grabbed a “Take away” lunch of a fresh crepe with nutella and a toasted sandwich similar to what we know as a panini. When we arrived at the Louvre, it was about 3pm and many people told us that the Louvre takes an entire, so we decided to go to the Musee d’Orsay. This museum was really relaxing and fun to see. There were works from many famous artists including Pissarro, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Monet, Manet, Degas, and Cezanne. We headed back to the hotel to hang out and check email. For dinner, we walked about 20 feet from the hotel to a tiny Tibetan restaurant, as requested by the birthday boy. We ordered Tibetan buttered tea, which ended up being very literal with melted butter in a milky hot tea, a chicken and noodle dish, steamed beef dumplings and a water cress salad. We finished off dinner with a birthday cake..—I mean with coconut rice pudding and raisins. It was actually a really fun dinner J

Our third day we slept in until about 9:30ish. For breakfast, we had croissants and both ordered café au laits. We walked down the Seine river to the Louvre and spent almost the whole day there. It is the world’s largest museum with thousands of artifacts from ancient Egypt to ancient Greece, the Renaissance and pretty much everything you can imagine. We saw famous works like the Mona Lisa, a huge painting of the Wedding feast at Cana (it’s more than 20ft high and 30ft wide!). We also saw beautiful sculptures like the Venus de Milo, Nike, and many more. Afterwards, we headed back to our hotel, relaxed and went to bed early.

On Monday, we walked to the Eiffel Tower, took our last pictures, and headed to the airport to fly to Sevilla, Spain. Paris was really fun, but we were excited to see new places too.