The Net Dog Blog

Lord, Kids! Paris wore me out! My dogs are barking! It seems like we walked every square inch of central Paris. The Louvre alone just about killed me. Next time I'm going to check into one of those nice wheelchair tours. All kidding aside, Paris is a beautiful city. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to see it.
After I arrived and checked into the hotel Friday evening, we walked to Notre Dame then had dinner at a little sidewalk cafe. I really need to get used to the European way of eating dinner so late. In London, people typically don't eat dinner until at least 8, whereas in Paris it's not uncommon to eat dinner at 10 or 11 at night! Needless to say, this boy was hongry! We also found out that the bars are typically busy before dinner. After dinner, after midnight or later, you basically have to know what party to go to. We were really hoping to get a taste of the Paris party scene so we were a little disappointed. Oh well. It was still fun.
Anyway, after dinner we took the Metro to the Eiffel Tower. We got there a little too late to take the elevator all the way tot he top but the second level was high enough for us, thank you. What an amazing view! Unfortunately, it was dark so many of the photos I took turned out. Next time I'll get there during the day.
Saturday we overslept a bit so we really have breakfast. I was hoping to try some French pastry. Maybe next time. Instead we grabbed a sandwich at the Louvre. People will tell you that the Louvre is huge but you have no idea until you walk it. We maybe covered half of it and I was about to collapse. Luckily we got to see the "high points"... Venus de Milo, Winged Victory, and the Mona Lisa.
You know I hate to be stereotype people (hehe) but I have one question... whatever can Asian people do with all the pictures they take? Good grief. If they aren't taking a picture, they're getting ready to take one. It seemed like I was always in their way. Maybe with all the photos I inadvertently found myself in I'll end up a celebrity in Japan! I could be the next Mr. Sparkle!
We met a couple of Blake's colleagues Saturday night. We started out having drinks (Strawberry Mojitos! Yummy!!!) at a bar then we moved to the Restaurant Georges at the top of the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. For you Sex and the City fans, this is the same restaurant where Carrie met the Russian's wife in the series finale. The view was breathtaking! You could see practically the entire city from our table. And don't get me started on the food and wine. I'll just say everything was delicious and leave it at that. We were probably seated at our table at 11 PM and left around 1:30 AM. By that time it was too late to do much of anything else (the bars close at 2 AM) so we went back to our room.
On Sunday, we decided to catch an early train and head back home to London. We found out that we had been invited to attend a function (black tie, we think) at the US Embassy to celebrate the Fourth of July so we figured we could catch the sights we missed on our next visit.