(In point form, because I couldn't find a cybercafe yesterday!)
-Longest line EVER for the RER from the airport.
-Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
-Great hotel (thanks for the recommendation Melissa!)
-As per many of my travels, I walked and walked and walked.
-St. Eustache
-La Louvre (just the outside, because they say that you need 9 months straight to see the entire museum)
-Champs d'Elysses (where I sat on a bench to eat a baguette and was accosted by a Parisian Jehovah's witness. 'Do you know Jesus?' she asked. 'Yes' I replied. 'Do you read the bible?' 'Yes' I replied. 'Do you know that one of God's names is Jehovah?' 'Yes' I replied. 'Au revoir' she said. I suppose I wasn't a very good audience for her)
-bought a mobile phone. Ooooh!! Now I have a mobile phone from Paris!!
-L'Arc de Triomphe (of course, I didn't go to the top, because I would have had to pass back by the guy selling paintings who tried to hit on me the first time through)
-and then I wandered (that's usually my favourite part)
I had walked all the way from the 1eme rondissement to the 17eme. Then I took the metro to Montmartre, looked at Sacre Coeur from a distance, wandered a bit more, and headed back to my hotel.
As usual, the most interesting part of the first day was all of the people I met. Parisians who helped me find my way, corrected my pronounciation of 'tartelette aux framboises',
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