Paris Day 5... June 19th

Day 25...

Today was the first free day in Paris. I was not really feeling like doing too much, mostly because of how exhausted I am and have been. I took my sweet time getting up do to almost anything.

Laura, Molly and I decided to go to the Arch de Triumph. Surprisingly, I figured out how to get us there no problem! We used our museum pass to go up to the top of it. The views of Paris from up there were incredible. I saw straight down Champs Elysees to the Louvre and the glass pyramid thing from the Da Vinci Code ( I had seen it up close just the other day, but seeing it from far away and high up was amazing,)  and the Eiffel Tower in the near distance. The Arch de Triumph is in the middle of this large, over sized round about, and on every corner (11, I think) that a street branched off of it was a building with a very different shape. Fortunately today wasn’t a cold day, but being up that high, we had strong winds hitting us.

We also walked over t the Statue of Liberty. I have now seen both of them within the last 40 days, I have been pretty excited about that sense I realized it! This one, however, seems a lot smaller than the one in New York, possibly because the one here is not that big of a deal because you can just walk to it, pay nothing, and stand in no lines because you cant go inside of it, but it was still amazing! I wanted a picture with it, and because the only way to get the whole thing it the picture with you was to stand as far away from it as possible on the little peninsula, Laura climbed over the railing and got a fantastic picture for me, and of course I returned the favor

~Champ Elysees~

Elyse