So we thought there were alot of stairs at St Pauls

Paris:

What a fantastic trip thus far. (I couldnt think of a better opening sentance, so here goes Paris.)

We started paris on Thursday afternoon. We got to our hotel around 2 PM, checked in and headed strait for the Fat Tire Bike Tour. When getting off the train we ran into two fellow ag's who had just graduated as well. They had both been on the night tour the day before so they hepled us find the bike shop. This tour was amaying. It was pretty much a 4 hour tour of the highlights of the city. I highly recomend it. After the tour we wondered over the the eiffel tower and walked around the park untill about 8:30. The craiest part of this trip is that it hasnt gotten dark untill about 10PM everz night. We finished the night out by walking around the city, finding a place to eat and then sharing a bottle of wine at a roadside cafe. Every thing felt very french about the place till we asked our waiter what his name was and he said Fred...how french...

Friday started off with a bang! We started by going to a very popular street market to get some bread and such for a nice lunch later that day. It was so cool to truly exdperience france that way. After the market we headed over to the Eiffel tower to actually go in. Due to the lenght of the line to go to the top, we only went to the second level which was about 500,000 stairs. We were by far in the shortest line and now i know why, but we felt it would be much better to say we climbed up the eiffel tower than to say we road an elevator up it. After the tower we went and hung out in the park behind the tower which was alot of fun. Drew and I walked up to the top of a little square to get some cool pics of the tower with a fountian in the view. While there we find a free show to watch. This show was called watch the african trinket salesmen run from the french cops. It was really funny. The cops would start running after them and they would just jog a little waya away and then go right back to where they were. The cops never got close. After this we went to the Louvre. I dont know if this is bad, but the only this i even knew that was in the louvre was the monalisa. I knew there was alot of other things but I didnt know what. It was pretty cool to walk around and see all the neat art and all from ancient Roman and Egyption civilizations. Now for the mona lisa...why the heck did that tiny picture get so popular? It was this tiny pic on a huge wall...but i guess i have seen the Mona Lisa.

Alright I got to go to a tour, i will write part 2 tonight when we come back to the Internet cafe.

Michael

(sorry for all the typos, ran out of time to edit :)