Sunday, July 15, 2007

July 14th - Vive la France (Bastille Day)


Today we visited the Eiffel Tower. It was amazing,but the lines were pretty long so we were kinda drained by the time we got up to the observation area. We were ambitious at first and paid for a ticket to the top level but really only made it up to the second level. The second level was cool enough though. You could see pretty far from where we were so we were happy with that. They had those little viewfinder things you could use to get a close up view of different parts of the city.

I was psyched because right in the same area they were having an outdoor concert for Bastille Day and Nelly Furtado was performing. She sang a couple of songs with Timbaland, but Tom thinks it was a voice track. He's probably right (Tom wrote this).

Today we noticed that they have these automated bike stations all over the city with bike rentals. We think the first half hour is free and then you can drop them off at any other station. We are excited to try these before we leave.

After a late lunch, we headed back the Champs Elysee and caught the latest Harry Potter flick. It was pretty good considering the story in Book 5 was kind of annoying, but I'll leave the movie reviews to Maxim.

2 comments:

Maxim said...

The movie review is on the way

Unknown said...

Bastille Day, the Eiffel tower, Nelly Furtado, Timbaland... romantic!... did Tom pop the big question at the view finders?