Paris!

Before we knew it, we were pulling into Paris, and our day of being zombies in Paris began!  Within 30 seconds, I managed to annoy a woman in line for the bathroom by not having the proper change (yeah, the station was cruel and charged to use the bathroom.)  After we navigated the Paris metro and checked into our hostel, we set off to find the Eiffel Tower.  It was unfortunately cloudy and kind of gross out, but it was still impressive!  We took pictures for a while and Amy fulfilled her life goal of getting a picture of it in real life. 

We decided to get a hop on, hop off bus around the city for the rest of the day, as we weren’t feeling highly functioning enough to navigate ourselves or make any sort of decisions.  It turned out to be the best decision ever, and we got to see all the major sites with the bonus of limited walking!  On one of the stops, we even treated ourselves to some Starbucks- the fall flavors were just as good as I remembered them to be.

We got caught in the rain on the walk back to our hostel, but after drying off we found a nice place for dinner- we even caught it in time for happy hour!  Back at the hostel, we packed up and got everything ready to leave for Prague the next morning.

..And thank God we did, because something we failed to realize was that the time in Paris was an hour ahead of what we had our clocks set for.  We woke up nice and early to give ourselves plenty of time to navigate to the airport.  Suddenly, we realized that it was almost 9am instead of 8am like we thought.  We picked up the pace and scurried off to the metro where we had to connect to the RER train to the airport.  Made it flawlessly, despite mixing up contact lenses (long story), being sassed by a train attendant, and not speaking a word of French.  At the airport, we grabbed another quick Starbucks to treat ourselves and then hopped on our plane to PRAGUE!