No Camera :(

The day started off rainy, and I guess that got me all discombobulated because I did the most atrocious thing I can possibly imagine- I left my camera in the apartment :( And what did we do today? We went to the Eiffel Tower. I disgust myself.

Well of course the Tour d'Eiffel wasn't the only thing we did! We slept in pretty late today, as yesterday was quite exhausting. As I said it was raining rather hard this morning, so before we left I ran down the block to buy umbrellas. I had to buy a belt too, as it was cool enough that I needed jeans today and I hadn't worn said jeans in close to a month and didn't know that they'd be loose! Successsss!!!! So yes anyway bought a belt. Now most of you (as in like Sarah and Lauren) will know that I've been searching for the perfect pair of white jeans for many moons. Well I found them :) Haha I was getting the belt and just happened to notice a rack of white jeans, not ripped, and under 20 euro. Tried them on, perfect. It would've been irresponsible not to purchase them. Ah so my morning jaunt across the road may have taken a few minutes longer than I'd planned, but c'est la vie. Grandma still wasn't ready to go when I got back anyway haha.

Now let me just stress the fact that the following series of events was all GRANDMA'S IDEA! The major plan for the day was Musee d'Orsay, and to get there we had to change trains at Notre Dame. We'd been thinking that the tour of the Crypt in Notre Dame would be interesting, so we got off the train and went there instead. It was indeed very interesting, not very large but they had several layers of ruins cut away and explanations of how everything came to be placed on the same site, etc. The site had once been the center of Roman government, old chapels, and just regular housing. No actual artifacts though, and they said much of the oldest parts were completely destroyed from 2 millenia of constantly digging out cellars and rebuilding. We spent about half an hour there, and then decided to move on to the Musee d'Orsay. GRANDMA suggested that we just walk instead of take the metro one stop, which I thought was the better plan as well. Let me tell you Grandma was highly regretting this decision after hahaha. She told me to make sure I put in here that it was AT LEAST 2 miles that I made her walk. It was a lovely walk though! It was cool and overcast, and we were walking along the Seine so there was a nice breeze.

Believe it or not we did actually make it to the Musee without having to call an ambulance for Grandma. The Musee d'Orsay was beautiful but much, much more crowded than I had expected! I don't know why I had the idea in my head that people wouldn't really be into Impressionism and would therefore skip the Orsay, but I guess its like the Louvre and just one of those things that you have to do in Paris. I have to say I really really enjoyed myself there, Impressionism is my personal favorite, and even though we skipped the Van Goghs  because of the crowds, I got to see some famous Gaugins and Monets and Renoirs. The sculpture was also very interesting. It didn't matter that I didn't have my camera though, because you're not allowed to take pictures anyway :)

We had a very late lunch and then caught the train over to the Tour d'Eiffel. Why why why didn't I have my camera? Haha luckily I got some good pictures of it from the boat the other day, but still. We only stayed about 5 minutes (it was sooooooooooo crowded!!!!!) but it was good to check that one off our list :p

I was very afraid to take the train home at rush hour, but we remembered it was Saturday today so it wasn't too bad.  The best thing about today was definitely the weather, it was great to be able to walk more than a block without wanting to die!! We're really really realllllllly hoping it stays like this. I'm going to fight the urge to go shopping now, it will help that everythings probably already closed, because there are some of the best clothes I've ever seen here and it is incredibly hard to find anything within my budget. I'm not going within a 20 foot radius of a shoe store on principle. It will be too hard to resist!