Where Will Life Take Me Today: Fire Les Cigarettes!

So we were up early and out on the road to Paree (that’s French for Paris). We almost missed the trip when I forgot my “cruise” card in my cabin and had to take a 5 minute jog all the way back. Which is great because I worked off all 4 of the breakfasts’ I had. (Don’t judge. You would too if the food was free). Short of breath and sweating like a hog, we finally boarded our bus, and you wouldn’t have guessed who we got to sit next to four 3 hours—the pack of 15 year old 50 year olds. Oh how fun. They were polite enough to wait 15 minutes into the trip until they busted out the Leann Rimes on the old CD player and started doing a song and dance routine…in sync. You would have thought that they had practiced this…hmm. Like I said, 3 hours later we arrived into Paris. The first historical site we passed by was the Arch de Triumphe, which, sadly, I was unable to get a picture of.

Off the bus with only 3 hours before we had to report back, we headed to our first stop…the Eiffel Tower. We made our way around the metro station and popped up about a half mile away. Walking down the street you have to follow the signs because you can’t see it around the buildings and the trees. Then we rounded the corner and there it was. Holy cow. Pictures do not do it justice. It’s so huge compared to pictures I have seen and to everything I thought it would be. By the time we got there, we only had 2 hours left to go and so we had to decide whether we wanted to go up the Eiffel Tower or try to squeeze in other sites. We decided that you don’t come to Paris and not go up. So we went all the way to the top, and let me tell you I was sweating from the second we left the ground until the time my foot stepped back off. Its so freaking high!!! The view was unbelievable, and definitely worth the trip. We really didn’t have time to do much anything else, so unfortunately we didn’t get to see the Louvre or Notre Dame—which the pope was visiting the day we went. We did, however, find a nice little pastry shop that had the most delicious looking treats. We bought a nice little strawberry tasty back to the cruise ship and enjoyed it later…mmmmm.

Back on the boat and at dinner, we got to enjoy it to ourselves because our table mates apparently didn’t like us and requested to be at a different table. Ha! It made Jeff so angry. I was happy they did cause we had much more fun. After dinner we headed over to watch a magic show, which was actually pretty good, and the guy was funny.

Anyway, off to bed to finally sleep in and enjoy our first relaxing day tomorrow all at sea. Enjoy…

I don't remember what this building was, but it was beautiful...