SO, Let catch you up to date to what I have been doing in the past couple weeks. Two weekends ago we ventured to France to see Paris had to offer us. We stayed in a three star hostel that was about 15 euro a night for each of us, so we figured we might as well live in luxury then in a hostel we share with 30 other people. The hotel was very nice, roughly 2 blocks from the Eiffel Tower. We arrived late in the day Friday so we decided to just walk around to get a feel of the city. The city was very nice, very clean unlike Rome, and we soon came to realize absurdly expensive. This city is not for the poor, for example some of the Taxi's were actually Bentleys it was quite ridiculous. We decided to walk down the Champs-else's to see the stores. On this street we stumbled in to by far the nicest McDonald's I have ever seen. Leather couches and chairs everywhere, wire-less internet, and flat screen TV's everywhere. After being mesmerized by the golden arches we tried to find a nice pub to have a drink, we found several all of which had beers ranging from 8-10 euro, we decided to pass on doing that fort the evening and go home to rest up for a long day. We woke up pretty early Saturday around 9 and decided to ascend to the top of the Eiffel tower. It cost about 10 euro to get to the top, but it was a clear day so we decided to head up and it was well worth the trip. After that we went to the Louvre to see some old pictures. The outside of the Louvre was just as impressive as the inside, it used to be a palace until about 1830 when it was turned into a museum. We saw several famous pieces of art, the most recognizable being the Mona Lisa and Venus di milo, you may know the Venus di milo from the Budweiser commercials where the guys ripped her arms off so they could get the Budweiser's she was holding in her hands but anyway. Also, the Mona Lisa wasn't nearly the size of what I had imagined, it was actually quite small and there was a very large crowd huddled over it so I didn't get a chance to get a good look. I was impressed with the Louvre however I felt our horrendous tourguide ruined our chances to get a better feel of the museum. After the Louvre we headed to Notre Dame. It was definitely an interesting structure, no St. Peters, but it was definitely worth seeing. After seeing the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, and Notre dame in about a 10 hour timespan we decided to go rest up the night. Being that we spend a lot of money our lunch we decided to cut back and go to Pizza Hut for dinner. We were hungry and we each got our own pizza's for roughly ten euro, which equates to about $13 dollar. When they bring us our pizzas we realize that what we had actually ordered, was a ten euro personal pan pizza. We were quite distraught and upset. At night we randomly met some American students who showed us around bastielle, a part of the city that had reasonable priced drinks. We eventually decided to head home after bar-hopping a little but not before we got another crepe, which I highly suggest anyone get if in Paris or anywhere they serve them.
Also, I should have pictures up in the next couple days.