Weekend in Paris!!!

The weekend in Paris turned out wonderful. Getting there was a different story. Our plane was delayed 45 minutes, the bus broke down at the airport for 2 hours and we didn't get to the hostel till 3 am... the hostel closed at 2. Thankfully the wonderful man at the desk had some sympathy for us and let us in :) The first day we went and toured the eiffel tower and wandered the streets of Paris. Anna and I decided to walk down the eiffel tower instead of taking the elevator.. lets just say we didn't take into account how large it actually was. We definitely got our exercise in. Saturday we hopped on the metro and saw the louvre, Notre Dame, Arc de triomphe, the champs-elysees (the biggest shopping street in paris), and some gardens. It was all so beautiful! When we were walking down the champs-elysees we saw a big building with golden gates and around 200 people waiting in line to get in. We wondered what store could be that popular that 200 people would wait in line to get in. Was it louis vuitton? Was it coco chanel? nope. It was Abercrombie and Fitch. We all had a good laugh at that one :)  Saturday night we went to watch the eiffel tower light up and at 11pm the tower starts to flash and it looks like it is sparkling in the night.  It was a wonderful end to the trip. I'm so glad that I got to go to Paris and being there was so unreal. It's the one place i've dreamed about going my whole life and it was worth every penny.