Day 6
This morning was lazy, I woke up around 8:30am but I dozed until just after 10am! I thought that Jay was still sleeping so I reached for my laptop to forward myself our e-ticket confirmation for the Eiffel tower today, but he was awake and reading on his iPad. I pulled up the confirmation and it says e-tickets, must be printed. WTF. So then we were in a MAD rush to get out of the apartment because I wanted to see if we could find a place to print them out - I sent them to myself in indiviual pdfs so I would have them on my phone and worst case assumed they could scan them from the phone. But as we walked down to the main road we passed a copy store, so I emailed them the pdfs and they printed them for me. 5 sheets for 4,30Eur, highway robbery!
We continued walking down Rue Petit Champs towards the Opera House hoping to find a cab since its an hour walk to the Eiffel Tower, and finally we saw one without a red light on top indicating that it was full. He pulled over and I asked if he could take 5. He said yes so we all piled into the back, meant for 3 adults with 2 kids on our laps. He went about 15 feet, pulled over and opened the back and popped up two extra seats and we put the kids back there. lol. Safety first.
Paige is so excited to see a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower, we came to Paris for her, really. She has a mini Eiffel tower in her room, had a sticker on her wall and has printed photos from when I was here 6 years ago on her bulletin board. Its a "lifelong dream" she said - lol.
She says it was everything that she thought it would be...now she just has to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa? What in the what?!? You just keep adding travel to your bucket list baby, we'll get it crossed off. lol. I said to her "Well, Daddy and I are going to Italy next year, but you're not coming" What, why not? "Well, I can think of a couple of reasons" and Mom pointed to each of the girls and said "One, Two" lmao. Very true.
We took a lot of photos from the top of the Tower, from each of the directions. Jay and Paige wanted to walk up the Tower but our ticket is for the elevator to the summit and the person at the bottom said it was one or the other, you could walk the 700 steps up to the second level but then that's as far as you could go, or you could take the elevator to the top. So they opted for the elevator.
It’s chilly, so the girls got hats in the gift shop. Sophie’s says Paris and Paige’s just has a little disc in it with the Eiffel Tower on it.
As we were taking the elevator back down, it stopped on the first level and the elevator attendant said "Premiere etage - Le glass floor, le restaurante, le theatre, le minigolf". Minigolf? We didn't get out, so we'll never know. I googled it, I can't find minigolf, but she said it Mom, Paige and I all heard it. Weird. I googled it in french, lol. Le mini golf tour Eiffel et voila! http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75007/du-mini-golf-sur-la-tour-eiffel-pour-les-vacances-25-10-2017-7354956.php its for real.
Blades in Paris!
Here Paige saw an artist doing carticatures.
From there we walked over to the Champs Elysees to get something to eat. What? Italian you say? Mais Oui. The girls are STARVING, and its 2pm, like always so I can see that. Paige is pissy because she got a caricature done and doesn't like it and had to use some of her vacation money to pay for it herself, actually she used up her one souvenir. 20Eur - I think its cute. Mom thinks it looks like Myah so I said to just write "From" above Paige and give it to her. lol.
The Arc de Triomphe is crazy, look at the roads coming to and from it.
After lunch we did a little shopping, hopped on a Hop on Hop Off tourist bus to take it to the closest stop to our apartment (the Opera House).
We got off at the Opera and walked back, stopping for some groceries, including Champagne and Beer. We also stopped at a chocolate store and the girls got macarons.
In the grocery store they had a orange juice squeezer.
The champagne we bought was 50% off of 28Eur, Bonus. When we opened it I asked Mom if she wanted a champagne flute or a wine glass and she said wine glass. Shoot. I didn't want to wash the glasses from yesterday. I said "I'll give you the new wine glass (there was one left) and I'll take a chance that this one isn't Sophie's" (one of the other 4 dirty ones on the counter). Sophie journalled Lyon, then Paige did while I worked on yesterdays blog.
Then Sophie read with Jay and I started todays blog, Paige hasn't read yet - I think she's waiting to read with me.
It’s 8pm. Time to go to dinner. Sushi tonight, last time, because Jay won’t go again. It was so good.
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