Paris by Trevor

Our next stop was the Eiffel tower. The night before the line ups had been huge (45 minutes) just to get tickets. So we got out the metro and there is loads of people crammed in by he stairs out. It was pouring rain, heavily. The guys who sell cheap souvaneirs tried to sell us an umbrella, even they had one. We ran accross he square and decided to grab a bite to eat and wait for it to calm down a bit.

We just wanted sandwhiches, so we found a place and it had wifi. It needed a code, so we asked he waiter and he came back and put a price of paper on he table with a nickel on top. Amber tried to look at it and didn't get it,she held it up to the light, I thought you might have to scratch the paper and it would show up, no dice. Amber's looking around and there is another waiter jsut killing himself laughing at us. It was now obvious that the waiter "pulled a fast one" on the "tourists". He came back with a big grin on his face and gave us the real code. We had a good laugh. The food here was really good and the waiter we had was awesome!

So we headed out to the tower, by now the rains had driven away practically all he other tourists so there was no lines. The top level was closed because it was in he clouds, when we got there so we bought tickets for the 2nd level. Once up there, there was a great view, it was freakin cold because of the wind and rain. We hung aroudnd for half another becuase they told us that they were opening he top level, so we bought out tickets for that and waited in line. Finally we started moving and rode the elevator to the top. It was even cooler up that, wow Paris looked amazing. A few pictures later, us getting in a few romantic kisses and we headed back down.

We took the stairs at the Eiffel Tower.

We decided to check out some other things, one cool thing was he Pantheon, a really old church with a huge dome that was coverted to secular use.

The church was beautiful and we got to climb to the top where we got some cool shots of the tower and notre dame from a distance. Inside of it was somethign called fulcrum's pendulum. It was the neetest thing, it was suspended from the center of the dome and there was plumb swaying back and forth near the ground. On the floor were the hours of a day, all the way to 24 and the pendulum swung exactly on the right time. No mechaics no anyhong just motion. I won't explain how it works, just google it, it's really interesting.

After that we had a really good dinner at a auhentic (not touristy) French resturaunt.

After that we headed back to he hotel and planned to book some stuff for Berlin. We found some hostels in our books that we wanted to stay at, so mom and I went down to use he computer, a couple must have just got there and they were friendly. They said they would be really quick, so we waited. And we waited while they wrote their blog ... checked his and her Facebook ... His and her Email ... His ESPN ... frickin ESPN are you kidding me, so much for being quick. I even started tapping my toe after a while, so annoyed! Finally they left and said "sorry for the wait", bullcrap you were.

Finally we got on and were able to book a hostel for our stay. And quickly updated our blog and headed to bed.

written by  Trevor and Amber on May 26, 2009 from Paris, France
from the travel blog: Europe Trip
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