Paris, France - DAY TWO

DAY TWO
We woke up at about 8:00am to the sound of morning traffic ramming itself into our room through the open window. I went to the MacDonald's down the street for a cheap and good coffee (It's about 2 - 3 Euro's cheaper to grab a coffee there than it is anywhere else and nothing is open for take away at that time) while Luke woke up and got himself gussied up. The plan for the day was to see the Arc de Triomphe, etc so we headed off! The subway system here is FANTASTIC so it only took about 25 minutes for us to get there and as we ascended the escalator there it was.....! (See photo). We knew it was huge but had no idea it was THAT HUGE. Unreal. The detail, the sheer size of the thing. Beautiful. Then it was on to the Champs Elysees where we saw Cartier (Where a pair of earrings will set you back about 22,000 Euros - see photo), Luis Vitton, etc... pretty flashy stuff. From there we walked down through Place du Concorde to the Louvre. On the way we stopped for a ferris wheel ride to take in a view of the city (See photos) and continued on to see the Louvre (Yes Dad, Luke and I saw some culture while we were there - not just the bars and cafe's). We made sure to see the Mona Lisa and the Venus Di Milo (See photos). The line of to see M.L. was insane. There were about a gazillion people but Luke and I sucked it up and waited our turn (About 20 minutes - longer than it took us to get into the building). The museum itself is so beautiful that it would have been worth seeing even if the statues, paintings, etc werent' there. After that we headed home and went to the market by our hostel where we picked up baguette, cheese, etc for dinner - again. Afterwards we headed to find ourselves happy hour somewhere and were quite successful. We hit a couple of bars and headed home for bed. Had to hit the sack early cause the following day was EIFFEL TOWER day.....