Paris Day 1 (by Amber)

We got to Paris by train a day earlier than we planned because when we went to buy our tickets for sturday the 23 all the seats were booked and we couldn't come a day late as we would miss meeting trevor mom at the airport. Because we were early We hadn't booked a room for and thought we better do that first so decided to call a few places but couldn't figure out our phone or the calling card so we decided to just go to the hotel we had booked for the rest if our stay in Paris and see if they had availability and if not hopefully find something close by. We had aleeady figured out qhich metro station we needed ( i know shocking we actually planned ahead) so we headed down to the metro and waited in line. At the front if the line i politly asked the 40+ ticket agent if he spoke english he covered his mouth and said "me" as if to say why would i disgrace myself by speaking english. After signalling that we would try to tell him in French he started laughing and spoke English. I told him we needed two five day passes for all of Paris to which he replied jokingly for "me and you". I laughed and said yes and he told Trevor to pay. Playing along I asked what he wanted to see in the city with me and he laughed and told trevor he could work the ticket desk. After paying for our tickets and getting maps he asked again if i was sure i wanted to see paris with trevor. I said i dont have much chose he paid. as we walked awayhe signalled to me "call me". The girls behind us could hardly contain themselves.

we got to the hotel we found at that there is some big tennis event happening and we would probably have a hard time finding anything in the whole city. Great. We walked to about 5 nearby hotels when Trevor started panicking as for a brief moment before I calmed him down he thought we would have to sleep on the street. I saw a nearby side street and convinced him to check there before freaking out. The first place had a tiny room but for a small price of 135€ which is about $200 Canadian while Trevor had checked that place I find another one and convinced the lady to let us stay in a single room for 70€ still the most we have paid for a room yet and by far the smallest room. We actually paid less at the fairmont. After checking in we headed to a cute little resturUnt for dinner and then walked to .......... Which was close by and had a great view of the city. There were hundreds of young people hanging out eating and drinking and watching some local performers. We walked through aimetourist shops and walked by the moulin rouge before heading to bed. So far Paris has not disappointed and we have hardly seen anything.

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Trevor and Amber on May 23, 2009 from Paris, France

from the travel blog: Europe Trip

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