What a day! We spent all day walking around the city of Paris with our new friend Gerlan. We started off our day with a couple errands including hitting the grocery store for some picnic supplies and the post office to mail some post cards! We then jumped on the metro and headed to the Champs Elysee. We were a little early to meet Gerlan so we decided to have an impromptu picnic in the park nearby with cheese, bread and grapes!
While walking the Champs Elysee, and explaining to Gerlan all about the United States, we came across the biggest Abercrombie and Fitch store we have ever seen! Naturally, Gerlan had no idea what A&F was so we decided we HAD to show him! The store front was a huge wrought iron gate guarded by two male models. We then walked a long pathway that led to the actual store, where we were met by another attractive male model... with his shirt off! We took pictures and laughed about how ridiculous it all was and then decided we had tortured Gerlan enough!
We continued walking on, stopping at Haagen-Dazs for some ice cream and Laduree for some window shopping! Everything was so beautiful and elegant. At the end of the Champs Elysee stands the Arc De Triumph! We all stood there taken aback at how beautiful and massive it was! We took lots of pictures, both from afar and right underneath and stopped to watch some street dancing!
We finally began making our way to the Eiffel Tower, slowly but surely. It was fun to just wander the streets of Paris, discovering funny shops, delicious deserts and getting in a TON of people watching! We were getting so close when we here "im tiiirreedd" coming out of Gerlan's mouth! We decided to torture the young man no more and stopped to eat the rest of our picnic at a park nearby! We laughed and ate and laughed some more, all with the Eiffel Tower as our backdrop! It was so surreal!
We wandered down to the Eiffel, walked underneath, wandered around the Champs De Mars park, took more pictures and decided to post up and wait for it to get dark! Watching the Eiffel switch from day time to night time is the most incredible thing I have ever seen! It was even more gorgeous at night then it was during the day!
We made our way back to Montmarte, hit the supermarket for some Magnums (Ice Cream bars the Jamie was told we MUST try) and headed back to the hostel feeling so much glee! We all agreed this was the best day so far!
We left the next afternoon for Switzerland and were all excited for a change of pace! Ready to have some down time and enjoy the beautiful sites Switzerland had to offer!
Goodbye France! Hello Switzerland!
K.J.E.
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