Before dinner, we took some pictures in the lobby of our hotel that I think turned out great!
Mary and Gary:
Mary, Gary, and Michael:
Mike, Shelley, Taylor and Cameron:
Steve and Nancy (and we got Nancy to smile- yay!):
Stephen and I:
The whole group:
I think the group shots turned out great!
Here is where to had dinner:
This night we sat upstairs. Getting a group shot was hard, but we tried.
Mike kept making fun of my head tilt and smile in pictures.
Mike had fois gras as a starter. Fois gras is duck liver that has been over fattened and is a delicacy in France.
Stephen and I shared this shrimp ravioli as a starter. It is hard to see the ravioli, but they are in there, and this picture makes it look like it is a huge portion, but we only had a few bites each. This dish was fantastic!!
I had lobster macaroni for my entree.
Stephen had a steak.
We were each served a little pot of potatoes. Isn't the pot cute?
Our walk to and from dinner was beautiful.
Everyone else went back to the hotel after dinner and Stephen and I headed back to the Eiffel Tower to see it at night. We took the subway and when we arrived we caught the tail end of the light show, which was beautiful!
The tower was so pretty at night. These pictures don't do it justice. I still took a ton of pictures though.
I know those are all very similar. I have a hard time narrowing pictures down, so I just included them all.
We then crossed the Seine river so I could take some pictures of the entire tower. I love this next picture!
We met a nice couple from LA who offered to take our picture.
Then we sat on a bench in the park and waited for the light show to start.
The light show starts on the hour and lasts for 5 minutes. It is absolutely magical! I had a very hard time capturing it on my camera. I do have a video that I need to upload. Still, nothing compares to seeing it in person. I wish it lasted longer than 5 minutes.
It was really late at this point and we were beyond exhausted so we left to find the metro.
I took this last picture as we were walking to the metro.
On the map, it looked like the stop we needed to get to was not far at all. We walked and walked and walked until I didn't think I could walk anymore. We actually tried to get a taxi, but they were all full. Finally we happened to come upon a club and asked the valet where our stop was. Thankfully it was just one block away.
We finally made it, but it wasn't the stop we thought we were walking to. Stephen studied the map to make sure we were at the right place.
We were so we went down to catch the train. We had to walk a ways inside the metro station, but we were lucky they had these walking sidewalks. I have never seen that in a subway station.
I really wanted to see the Louvre at night and our plan earlier in the evening was to take the metro from the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre and then walk back to the hotel. At this point, we were totally exhausted and could not walk another step, so we didn't go to the Louvre. Something else to add to the growing list of things we will have to go back to see.
Paris Day 2 was unbelievably wonderful and exhausting. I am exhausted just reading about it and don't know how we managed to do everything we did. It was also an absolutely wonderful day! I completely fell in love with Paris. It reminds me a lot of my other favorite city, New York City, but is different. When we collapsed into bed that night I felt so happy and grateful to be in this beautiful city and I couldn't wait to have another day there!
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