I don’t leave for Paris until 2pm, so I had the morning to get ready for my trip. I finished packing, made myself an omelets for breakfast, painted my nails, and gathered all the information on my flights, hotel, directions to hotel, list of things to do and see in Paris and left around 12 noon to go to the airport. Right as I was about to leave I got a message from Camilla about sending her a file and of course the file would not send, it was taking forever. I was getting very stressed because I still had to get to the airport in enough time. I left around 12:30 pm file still not sent but on a flash drive to send later. I ran to the subway and took it to T-Centralen where I catch the Arlanda Express, when I got off the train a man started speaking Swedish to me and I told him I didn’t speak Swedish so he kept asking questions about where I am from, why I am here, all that, and he helped me to find where the Arlanda Express leaves from, which was very nice, but also frustrating because he kept talking to me and I needed to get on the train to the airport. So I told him to just give me his phone number, so that he would let me go. I have no intention of calling him, but he was very helpful and I got on the train just minutes before it left. I got to the airport with an hour to spare before my flight left. Luckily I didn’t have a bag to check, so I just checked in and got straight in the security line. I ended up getting to my flight just as boarding began. Everything went smoothly with the flight and I got in to Paris around 5pm. Once I got there, I had to figure out how to get to downtown, so I hopped on the RER to Paris, and got off at Gare du Nord station, where I was supposed to take another train but my ticket wouldn’t work and on the map it looked close so I decided to walk. Turns out its not very close, I walked for about an hour, not 100 percent sure where our hotel was, since my directions just said to get off at Blanche station. There was a more detailed map of the area on the side of the toilet so that helped me to find the hotel.
Look whats right near our hotel
When I got there Maggie was in the room, and we were hungry. I just dropped off my stuff and we left for the Eiffel Tower. We wanted to walk since we had been traveling all day but boy we had no idea how far it was, it was like the great sand dunes (if you have ever been), we kept seeing it and thinking we were close but we really weren’t we just had to keep walking and walking.
The plan was to get some food and eat it next to the Eiffel Tower, but we were way to hungry to wait. We got sandwiches when we thought we were close, but as we kept walking and walking, we ended up getting too hungry to wait. Maggie finished her sandwich right away but mine lasted till we got the Tower. When it finally was in front of us it was really cool, to just be at the Eiffel Tower!!
Its one of those places you hear about all the time and when you are there you feel it. Although there were a lot more people than in the movies, ha ha. We took a seat on the grass and I finished my sandwich and we just enjoyed the view. There were tons of people walking around trying to sell you wine, or beer, and mini Eiffel Tower key rings (5 for 1 euro which we didn’t get- but later decided we wanted and we had to buy 5 for 3 euro- little lesson, when something is that cheap the first time buy it!). As the sun went down it got super windy and a little rainy, Maggie got something blown into her eye and so we started to head back to the hotel, but it was supposed to sparkle on the hour, and it was 15 minutes to the hour. So we stayed to watch it sparkle and it was very exciting.
Then we headed back to the hotel as it started to rain. The long way back seemed even longer in the rain.
When we got back to our hotel we were very tired. And ready for bed. We planned out what it was we wanted to see while we were there and got to bed to get our sleep for the Louvre tomorrow!
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