La Tour Eiffel

Well, finally, some pics! We are stealing internet from a friend of a friend of a friend, so we are finally able to access the world wide web at home (as of about an hour ago). This first post is going to be dedicated to our first real tourist venture after getting to Paris. I'll start by giving a little background info. First of all, we left Tampa on friday night, hoping to arrive in Paris on saturday, in order to have some time to get situated before sunday. We didn't want to go grocery shopping, etc. on sunday, not only because its the sabbath, but also because its France, and NOTHING is open on sunday. So everything was well planned out, except for the weather which held us over, and we missed our flight in Miami. We ended up spending the night in the red roof inn, because it had a free shuttle from the airport, and also because it was the cheapest (yeah thats right, we are CHEAP!.

We of course didn't pack extra underwear or anything else of use in our carry-ons, even though we had mentioned it to each other numerous times while getting ready to leave. So that means that, by the time we got to Paris, what with spending the night in Miami, and then traveling all night long, etc. we had been in the same outfits for 3 days and 2 nights. We were tired, and stinky, to say the least. At least we had thought to bring some little face wipe things to clean up some

So we arrived in Paris, jumped on the metro, and ran around Paris for about 2-3 hours, first meeting up with andrew and lydia, getting our key, and then finding our appartment.

After a day of sleeping (literally a day, we took about 3 melatonin, and slept for about 14 hours straight). Monday we got up and ran some errands and then headed out to see the Eiffel tower. Like I said in a previous post, by the time we got there, we were too tired to actually enjoy it. Our feet hurt from walking at least 15 miles (at least) and we were hungry, and we didn't stay any longer than we had to. We snapped a few pics, and got out of there.