Paris!

Ran and I made it to Paris for a quick weekend, having Friday, May 8th off for another French holiday. The beauty of that one was that I still don't know what it was for?? We took a one hour flight on Easyjet from Toulouse. It looks like they have $60 Euro roundtrips available...of course we paid about $130 roundtrip but we purchased them a week before leaving. We found a hotel that was just a few blocks from the Eiffel Tower. It was nuttin fancy but a good location, right near the Metro (Duplex) station.

We really were just focused on the Eiffel Tower and doing a bus tour of the city one day and then the Lourve most of the second day.

When we first arrived there in the inner city it was a lawless, shameless, madhouse!!


The first night we were there we were both tired from all the walking and air travel. We went to dinner that night thinking we may just call it an early evening. Randi's exact words were to me..."I can't walk anymore". Then during dinner we had a couple glasses of wine (actually vodka for me) and she says "let's just go look at the Eiffel Tower again" (it was right around the corner from where we were). Then when we got there we thought maybe we would take the elevator up but there was still a 45 minute wait for the elevator ride up. Then Ran says "let's just do the 1st section" (350 steps). Then we got to the first section, took a look around for five minutes and she says "where are the stairs for the second section" She's really something :) ...I wanted to say "wait, let me have a couple more vodkas first". So another 350 stairs we did...it was slightly exhausting but definitely worth it...great fun.


After that we found our second wind! So we went down, bought a bottle of wine and drank it on one of the large expanses of lawn nearby the Tower, with many other people. It was a beautiful night too. As you can see from the pic below, both the Eiffel Tower and us had "achieved illumination!" :) Randi looks so cute there too.


We felt like we did quite a bit and saw a lot for the two days we were there...but there is soooo much more to see and do there. We think are some of the first folks to discover this.