Europe Part 2 - Paris

After 5 days in London we took the high speed train to Paris. The train ride is a little over 2 hours and goes under the English Channel. The London train station is just a few months old and is really nice. The Paris one is a little older and not as nice. Our hotel was a couple of blocks from the Arc de Triomphe. It was the first thing we saw after we got off the Metro. This is the only day that we didn't have rain on our trip. Here are some sight seeing pictures from Paris. You can click on them to make them bigger.

 

Notre-Dame de Paris, Louvre, us in the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Jennifer in Versailles Hall of Mirrors (right after falling again), Versailles, Sainte-Chapelle stain glass windows, Place de la Concorde marker when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lost their heads, the view from Place de la Concorde of Champs Elysees (and yes we walked the whole way to our hotel), Eiffel Tower, Statute of Liberty flame, Opera Garnier, metro station, Jim Morrison's grave, Chopin's grave and our hotel balcony.

For our anniversary we had dinner at the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. It had rained that morning so everything was wet still by evening. We had dressed up for the dinner and what did I do, I fell on the last step of the Eiffel Tower. Little did we know that this would be a trend for France. Of course I was wearing a white shirt so not only were my pants wet my shirt had black on the back and all on my arms. We get to the Eiffel Tower and it loses some of its romantic charm when you have armed military walking around. It started to rain while we waiting for the restaurant to open. By the time we got to the restaurant it had stopped. The rain did cause the top level to be closed so we didn't have the opportunity to do that. After dinner we did see a beautiful rainbow. After the Eiffel Tower we took a tour of Paris on bateau mouche down the Seine. When we got off the boat it was right at 10 pm and every hour after dark the Eiffel Tower has a sparkling show of lights. We didn't get a picture of it but it was pretty. Here are pictures of our dinner and our views of the Eiffel Tower.