Paris!

Our hotel is old and nice and right in the heart of Paris -- Hotel du Lys. It has no elevator and we have to climb this winding staircase to our room. Breakfast is complimentary each morning and a great way to start the day.









We walked all over the city our first night and now Courtney has a knee injury and I have a back injury so we just have to sit around all day on the Internet (but for parents that might take this too seriously, we are okay).







Apparently our camera has some shutter speed deal that malfunctioned, but Courtney says this is art. Right before we took this picture, we saw a guy get hit on a motorcycle, which was scary, but he was okay.









Dinner the first night. You don't want to know how much this glass of pink champagne cost -- we didn't know until the bill came. This was a very nice restaurant where Victor Hugo (of Les Mis, Hunchback of Notre Dame fame) used to eat. It was SO formal that we were nervous the whole time that we were messing something up and whispered the entire meal for fear we'd be kicked out.



We finally fulfilled my hope of going out on the town. This is me at one of Paris's top clubs/bars: Kong. It was nice but had nothing on Bellbottoms.








Courtney: smaller than that lady.












Efficiency: see two monuments at once.

Paris has all these chocalatiers on the street that put all these amazing little snacks (one step up from M&M peanuts) in their windows. We finally got drawn into the Godiva one and this is us eating our truffles.

Opera Garnier during intermission at the ballet we went to last night. Very opulent and proper. We bought some scalped tickets and were nervous they were fakes, but it worked out.

So....this is us at dinner after the ballet as we were realizing we messed up. The prince killed the bad guy, saved the princess and everything seemed great. The curtains came down, the crowd cheered, and the lights went on. So we got our stuff and left. As we sat at the restaurant waiting to eat, we noticed no one else left until like an hour later. Apparently there was a THIRD act? oops.