09 October 2012

< Paris//Day Two >

Day Two::it's a long one folks. This day was pretty awesomely jam packed. It would seem we were running from one place to the next, but we totally weren't. We took our sweet time.

Friday/that morning I checked my email and found an email from my brother suggesting we go see his favorite chapel in Paris, Saint-Étienne du Mont. It looked great and it was nearish where we were already headed that day {Musée de l'Armée} so we decided to go there first. We weren't 100% sure where it was located but we knew the area so we as we were looking for it we happened upon a crêpe stand. THANK GOODNESS we decided to get them because they were seriously seriously delicious. I got my favorite, banana and Nutella and Jachen got cheese and chicken. I can't still believe how good they were. That, unfortunately, was the only crêpes we got in Paris though...all the other times we saw stands we weren't hungry or just didn't get them...probably my only regret for this trip was that we didn't eat more. {although I did buy already made crêpes at Monoprix that we brought home so last night I made cheese and chicken crêpes which tasted pretty close. so good}

We found the chapel, right next to the Panthéon. What a beautiful area that was. It was such a beautiful day again so lots of students/people were out on the steps of the Panthéon and the chapel eating lunch.
Saint-Étienne du Mont was so so beautiful. I am glad my brother suggested we go and I am so happy we decided to go. My new favorite chapel as well. You can see lots of it in the video.

We didn't go in the Panthéon, neither of us cared to. However when we walked up in front of it, I turned around and THERE it was!...the Eiffel Tower! My first peek at it! It was pretty exciting. Everything we had seen up to that point could have been anywhere in the world...BUT the Eiffel Tower is only in Paris...the Eiffel Tower is what makes you realize "holy cow I am really here!" But it wasn't quite time yet to go to it.

We headed down the street in front of the Panthéon and it lead us to/through the Jardin du Luxembourg which was beautiful and big. We found seats in the shade and chilled there for awhile next to the water. After we headed to the nearest metro station which took us near the army museum/hotel des invalides. We had a nice little walk trying to find it and ended up sitting at another great area enjoying the Eiffel Tower top in front of us and the Hotel des Invalides to our left. After resting we headed into the army museum. We didn't go through the whole museum, we would have gone to more, but our feet were already pretty sore and we still had the Eiffel Tower to go to that day.

We left the museum and walked to the Eiffel Tower. Jachen took two pictures with my iPod and it died...so there is no videos of the Eiffel Tower that day...as you can see from the video. Darn it! {But I couldn't make all these videos and not have the Eiffel Tower in any, so we went the next evening to see the Eiffel Tower again.} Enjoyed the tower down below for a bit then stood in line to ride the elevator up to the mid level. So happy we did that. It was awesome to see Paris from that high...as you can see from the pictures. Paris really is as beautiful as you would think. When people say "Paris is dirty" don't listen to them...sure it has grungy areas, but what city doesn't. There were soo many beautiful areas and buildings that I don't even know why people say that about Paris as one of their first things.

Up on the Eiffel, after seeing the views and purchasing some Eiffel Tower souvenirs, we were starting to be real sore and real hungry. After finally getting our turn back down on the elevator, it was passed dinner and I was seriously getting hungry. The last real thing I ate was hourssss before when we had the crêpes{well technically we had a granola bar and a couple crackers after}. We took the metro near that area from day one that we wanted to go back and eat...but we got off at a metro stop we hadn't been before and somehow we got turned around and started heading the wrong direction. NOT good for me when I was starving, sore feet and tired from a long day of walking. We ended up having to take a metro again to get to where we needed and finalllly made it to where we wanted to go and got Gyros. Weren't as amazing as the ones I have had in Seattle{it wasn't lamb and there was no feta}, but still hit the spot that Gyro and Orangina. Then somehow, we managed to make it all the way back to our hotel that evening.

That was day two. A big and great day.
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Saint-Étienne du Mont
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Panthéon
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Jardin du Luxembourg
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L'Hôtel des Invalides//Musée de l'Armée
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Eiffel Tower
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>>>M

1 comment:

danielle p. said...

this makes me want to be back in paris so bad! lovely photos, it seems you had a great time!