Noodles on a Bike

It starts off quite nice, not as chilly this morning as yesterday so I'm wearing a skirt instead of pants.

For breakfast we had... You guessed it!
Chocolate croissants, well actually it's just called Pain de Chocolat, Chocolate Bread, but either way, it's yummy!

I got lucky this morning and discovered that this computer had MSN Messenger! Huzzah!
Even though in California it's one in the morning! I was able to talk to Pherfy!!!
Hopefully I'll get to talk to more people tonight.

We've decided to go to the Eiffel Tower so I'll have a good story to tell tonight!
Oh! And I'm buying my postcards today, I need about twenty, so some people might be getting some pretty weird postcards, I don't want everyone go get the same!

So I started this post in the early morning, when I said the Eiffel Tower I did not know it would end up being a crazy day filled with many many more things.

We started the day with the local church and this is a certain church.
A certain weird church, it had chairs on the ceilings.
Chairs on the ceilings. Odd. Then there was a bike that looked like an elephant.
It was kind of weird.

We stopped at a change station because I discovered that I had seventy dollars in my wallet, translated into Euros I got about fifty. I already owed my dad twelve, so plainly, money goes fast.

Then we took the Metro to a square that contained a fountain, what fountain, I have no idea. It had a guy with a trident and nymphs. Also there was an oblisque with Egyptian stuff on it.

Walking along a very tree filled lane we grabbed a lemon and sugar crépe. Yum!

Then we walked down the Champs-Elysses until we reached L'Arc de Triumph. It's nice. Lots of people, mostly Asians and Americans, go figure.
Then we walked to the Tour Eiffel.

Of course, the Tour is never as close as it looks. Just like the other side of the bank on the river with the suspension bridge, just like the Space Needle in Seattle, and just like the Empire state building.
Tall things never are as close as they appear.

So we went to a café. Mascotte Cafe to be precise.
My aunt had a Shrimp salade, my father had a ham and cheese sandwich, just like the one's we had at the Tour de France, then my sister had a cheese sandwich with cheese that ended up being too strong for her. My mom split and I split a ham and cheese sandwich and a Gourmande sandwich.
All was good, but I do remember something, when the French say Milkshake, they mean Milkshake. Seriously. The milk had been shaken with chocolate powder, and not nearly enough.

Anyways, we made our way over to the Tour Eiffel. There were a lot of people and we were hoping to be there for the lighting of the Tour Eiffel, we got there at six and figured it would start at eight.
I asked a lady in my best French what time the lighting would occur, and she replied in perfect English, "It's always at ten."
So with four hours to kill we lounged around, first in the surrounding gardens and then on the grass. Then around eight we thought it would be a good idea to walk up the stairs.
I am afraid of heights.
But that never seems to stop the family from going on various high rise places, the older the better they must figure.
So we went up the 750 stairs. And the view was spectacular, but I didn't go to the rail.
I also opted not to go with the vast majority of the family into the highest platform of the Tower. I actully listened to advice! Thank you Matt!
Anyways, we went back down the 750 stairs. That's 1500 stairs, plus the walking we did to get to the Tower plus the fact that we had to get home somehow.

Around nine forty we found a spot on the grass to watch the lighting of the Tower, which was also amazing, and with the spotlights on the Tower appears to be made out of gold.
Gorgeous.

We found another Metro station and made our way home. But with my father and aunt fighting about direction we ended up a little farther away from the appartment than planned, but the family was so tired that we did not complain.

For the light dinner we had this morning's bagette with some leftover cheese, aged Munster, smoked salmon, onion, lemon, apples and pears.
Quite good really.

Anyways, it was a busy day and I got on in time to talk to Christine!
Supposedly you people in California are having quite a heat wave?

Ah well, off to sleep, it's almost two AM here.

Tomorrow is supposed ot be a little calmer, hopefully just shopping.