Saturday morning we woke up around 8 am and headed aross the street to Starbucks for some coffee and breakfast. After we got our fill of goodies there we began our grand adventure for the day and our first stop included the Louvre. Our tour guide from the Blue Bike Tour had told us to get there right at opening in order to try and beat the lines. We got there right around the time it opened and we essentially walked right in! We couldn't believe it! It had started to sprinkle on the walk over there so we were al thankful we didn't have to stand outside in the rain! We did have to wait for just a few minutes inside to get our tickets but we were soon on our way! The first stop at the Louvre? The MONA LISA! Once again our tour guide was right on and told us to check out the Mona first before it fills up. We were able to snap some quick pictures with it and be on our way to the next stop! To be honest she was about what I expected--size and color wise--everyone had warned us she was smaller than you think.
Up next after the Mona Lisa was the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts outside of Egypt...this exhibit was HUGE. It was also AWESOME. For those of you who know me really know will know how much I appreciated this exhibit. Growing up I wanted to be several things, but at one point I wanted to be a historian and focus on Egyptian history. So needless to say I thought this exhibit was FANTASTIC. We saw a little bit of everything--the displays were awesome enough by themselves but they were also housed within the Louvre so each room was breath-taking too! Melinda and I kept looking from the glass cases of Egyptian stuff to the ceiling of the rooms to the doors to the handles that opened the windows--there was stuff to look at everywhere. Turns out Melinda loves Ancient Egyptians stuff too so we took our time walking thtough all the different rooms together... And it was all breath-taking! The detail of the rooms was incredible--from the wood carvings in the door to the colors of the ceilings each with a different painting. I tried taking pictures of the all the different things so it might help to just show you pictures!
Okay onto the next part--after the Egyptian exhibit we went to the original Louvre structure which was below the ground...I took a few pics there too!
Our last stop at the Louvre was a few of the sculpture exhibits...we only saw a few of the exhibits--didn't make it every single one but we had a blast checking out the ones that we did!
Okay that isn't every single detail from the Louvre, but rather a brief overview--I have tons of other pictures but I don't think the blog would handle me uploading every single one ;)
So after we left the Louvre it was pouring rain! We sloshed back towards our apartment and found a cool little pizza place ("Pizza Caesars" I think) to eat lunch.
After lunch there was a brief siesta time. After drying out our shoes and socks we were ready for stop 2--the Eiffel Tower! We took a taxi there and when we arrived the sun peeked out for just few minutes!
So we choose to walk up the stairs because the line for the elevator was longer--we only had to wait in line for maybe 30 minutes--SCORE! We were rockstars when it came to picking the right time to go places! We headed up the stairs and let me tell ya--we were all sucking air by the time we reaced the first look-out point! Heights aren't my absolute favorite thing in the world so I was good on the first level look-out. Originally the rest of the crew planned to go to the top but we all ended up just staying on the first level (I told them I would wait and they were more than welcome to go but we found a cool little cafe and hung out there for a little bit instead). The views were pretty cool and we took tons of pictures! After a while there was a storm a brewing so it was about dusk when we left and we took the elevator down (our legs thanked us tremendously! ;)
So after the Eiffel Tower we took a cab back and had a low key night. Kerry and Melinda went out and explored a little bit but Cam and I stayed back at the apartment--I was actually able to get a hold of both my parents so I got to chat with them! ;) We called it a night pretty quickly after I chatted with them.
That was a pretty brief description of our first full day! Sorry it seems like a novel though with all the different parts! I have some other stuff to work on so I will write about Day 3 either later this afternoon or sometime this weekend! We hope you all have a great Friday!
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