Monday in Paris (Day Three)

OK so I have been a total slacker as far as my blog goes lately but my vacation pictures are a little overwhelming and I am busy/lazy, I fully admit that. Ok so Monday in Paris we got up to a gourmet breakfast made by Kelly, Charlie left on a business trip to Sweden that day so we decided to do the Red Bus tour with Kelly. The Red Bus tour is really fun because it takes you to all of the really touristy places like the Notre Dame, and the Louvre and Eiffel Tower and all of that good stuff. You get to get off at each stop and spend as much time as you want there and then hop back on the next bus (they come like every 15 minutes) and go to the next site. We got on by the Arc because that was the closest stop to their apartment and we took the bus down this really cool street from the Arc called the Avenue des Champs-Elysees it had lots of cool shops on it and from that we went to the Eiffel Tower. We took TONS of pictures of the Tower, it is SO beautiful I am in love with it. We walked around the base of it (we waited to go to the top of it until our anniversary). When you do the Bus Tour you get like a discount on a river boat tour so we went on the boat tour of the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower and it was really cool. There were actually house boats on it and it runs through the entire city. The coolest part was that you get to see all of the bridges in Paris and each one has its own story so it was really cool to learn about each one. Like one was built out of stones that came from a jail where people were unjustly held so they built the bridge/road out of those stones to trample on the injustices that occurred in that jail. Each one had a specific reason like that so I loved it.
After that we got back on the bus and headed to the Notre Dame. It was really busy and we were a little tired so we decided to get lunch at a cute little cafe by the Notre Dame. It was so cute, that is probably my favorite thing about Paris, there are cute little cafes that are every where! You can just stop and get a Coke and sit down for a minute or get lunch or dinner. I wish we had that here in good ol' Provo. Anyways after lunch we walked around inside Notre Dame and it is SO beautiful. They have these amazing stained glass windows that have such amazing detail and the inside is made of this beautiful stone, I loved it. After we did the inside Mike decided he wanted to go to the top. We had to stand in line for like 45 minutes but it was so worth it. You walk up this little stair case made of stone and it looks like you are on a movie set it is awesome. Then you get to this level which is about 3/4 of the way up and that is where you can go in the bell tower. They have the story of Quasimodo so that was cool. The bell was huge that we got to see. Then we got to to the very top. It was an amazing view of Paris. After that we rode the red bus home and went out to a very nice dinner with Kelly at a really cute little restaurant around the corner from their apartment. It was really good food, no raw hamburger so that is always a plus.