CREPES!

I swear, I ate my way through Paris. I must learn how to make crepes, as they are now staple in my diet. 
We did most of the tourist things in Paris, except the Eiffel tower. Yeah right, you can't miss that beast. It really is just huge, and they had no lifts while constructing it! And it has 2.5 million rivets in it- yeah, super interesting blog today, rivets :) We mistakenly got tickets to walk up the tower instead of ride the elevator, and it is a lot of steps! It was a good workout, but of course Harry Snotter, this little shithead english child was on the stairs throwing a tantrum the whole way up. The view was just as stunning as the first time i was there, only even better because it wasnt raining, woot! 
We spent most of one of our days going through the Louvre; way too many people, but completely worth it. I lost all other thoughts when wandering through the Louvre- just me and the art for a full, lovely day. We also strolled by ol Notre Dame, and the palace. Hate to say the cliche, but Paris is a romantic city. We watched the midnight tower light show, and it just made you feel happy. It's definitely too large of a city for me though- the subway is disgusting, and we saw a man with his pants (and underpants) down, laying on the subway platform, and he looked dead. Not that those situations can't/don't occur in smaller cities, but it just felt like ten million people doing their own thing. However, we did get some local yocal mixing at a small music venue one night. The opening band was quite terrible, but the second act was a huge improvement. 
We rode the train to Paris from Amsterdam, and it was fast and easy. Met some British kids (they are everywhere!) on the train, and one was living in Paris and was very helpful in directing us to where we were staying. 
Thats about all for Paris- no joke, it was mostly eating. A bit expensive, but yummmm!