Flight was pretty good, didn't sleep much unfortunately. Arrived in Paris, started stumbling through the airport to get to baggage claim (which was a tram ride away). Meanwhile, this sign was lovely and welcoming:
Met up with Adam and Erik (my travel buddies) at the airport (kind of miraculously considering none of us had cell phone use and we came in at different terminals). We took a cab to our hotel, which is pretty central in the city, went up to our room to put our things down, and went to get some lunch. The first restaurant we stopped at just to see the menu, had a VERY excited waiter. He came right up to us and started mentioning all of the great things on the menu. We weren't 100% sold on it so we walked down the block a bit more, and ended up finding something that was a bit more affordable. Food here is expensive! Wow!
We started to do some wandering, saw the Academy of Music (aka Opera House, above) and walked to the Louvre (which we will probably go to tomorrow, it's only 10 euro, so cheap!).
Then we walked down Champs Elysses (which we all still don't really know how to pronounce), we could see the Eiffel Tower from there, and I took some pictures of the gardens and the tower in the distance.Then we ran into EITAN (who was on WUJS) who I knew was in Paris but I hadn't called him yet to try and meet up. It started raining so we headed back to the hotel; Ethan went to his. We each took a nap back in our deliciously comfortable beds (which may or may not have been a good thing; I think we woke up more groggy then when we fell asleep) and met up with Ethan for dinner and some drinks in Paris! The American Dream restaurant/bar which we passed by before had live music and a pretty cool atmosphere, so it was a hit.Already took some pictures today which have been posted to Facebook, so find Ruthie Jewthie online and check 'em out!
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