When in France do, as the French do

Bonjour!

We are in Paris; however, our feet may not be. We decided that Paris is the city of walking, so that is what we did. We walked everywhere! We also did as most French people do, and got a Metro pass just in case our feet fell off ( some of the passes NEVER worked!) (p.s. if you ever need to find your way around the Metro, ask Melissa). Yesterday we rode the Metro to Notre Dame (hands down best cathedral ever!), ate crepes and walked down the river to Arc de Triomphe where we found Devin's birthday and Trina's last name! After that six mile walk, we hopped back on the Metro and made our way to the Eiffel Tower where we had a picnic. Heather used her height to help a sad Jack Russel Terrier get his ball from a tree (American's aren't rude!).

We then made our way to the Louvre where we thought we were going to get in for free (that was according to LET'S GO EUROPE, which was wrong). We saw the Mona Lisa and looked for the Last Supper which is apparently in Italy (shout out the the Museum guide that told us and did not laugh at us). We looked around for about two hours but all of our feet hurt and we decided we needed to get home!

Day Two
We slept in (Staci and Devin got up early so that they could eat some delicious pastries). We walked toward the Metro and got tickets for Palace of Versallies. When we got to the Palace we waited in a line to get a ticket... and then when we got our ticket we had to wait in another line to get into the Palace. We found a way to pass the time (for about 5 minutes) and played "20 questions". After we used Becky as the center of a question, we decided that the game was over because no one could compete with that. Finally we went into the palace and looked Marie Antoinette's bedroom, the king's bedroom and the hall of mirrors . There was a lot of gold, and we decided that it wouldn't be bad to live there (it doesn't compete with our hostel though, love you Paris hostel!). After the palace, we went to the gardens, walked around and found an extremely large man-made lake to sit by. Trina thought it would be a good idea to feed the ducks with her left over panini as our feet dangled over the edge, and an EXTREMELY large fish (biggest fish ever!) jumped up right in front of Staci. She spent the next half-hour at a safe distance while everyone else fed the ducks and ugly-big fish.

Now we are at our hostel (which kicks London hostel's ass). We are going to a cafe for dinner (doing as the French do) and are then going on a boat ride down the river (hopefully no fish).

Tomorrow: Belgium! (yay waffles)

Best meal of the day: Toss up between the pastries, fruit, baguettes, brie and anything the French make.

Worst meal of the day: none, French food rocks!

Random moment: Creepy people at the Eiffel tower who like to yell at us.

Shout outs:
-Hi Jan!
- Becky, glad your grad school dollars are going towards reading our blog. Take that Perez!
-Poiny, leave a comment, we fixed it!
-Ferry says hello to the Ferry Family. oh... and Brian...
-Jessica, see you sooooon, yay for even numbers!
-Hi Ruth and Ralph (Mason...). Not you Justin.
-Hi sweeeeet Caroline (bup bup bup...)
-Hi Mom, Dad and Brody (you too Jason).