The day was beautiful! The sun was out and shining which was a welcome change from Dreary Cloudy Lyngby. The morning we had about the same weather that we have in Copenhagen, but as the day progressed it got colder and colder and colder and then FREEZING. It was much colder than it is in Denmark currently.
The Seine
Isn't it just beautiful?
The Louvre
We sat here and drank our coffee and liked watching the sun.
We walked through the grounds of the Louve to a big park area which would eventually lead us right onto the Champs-Élysées.
We walked through the grounds of the Louve to a big park area which would eventually lead us right onto the Champs-Élysées.
We walked up Champs-Élysées to the Arch de Triumph and stopped in several shops along the way. We were going to cross under the street to the middle but once we got there, it just didn't really sound all that appealing. So we didn't, and continued our walk to the Le Tour Eiffel.Arch de Triumph
We had to cross back over the Seine. If you look carefully in this picture you can see Sacre Coure in the background.
Finally we made it to the beautiful beautiful Le Tour Eiffel. Its size didn't strike us as impressive as the first time our eyes laid eyes on it. Yet, it was still massive and still impressive. Maybe knowing how big it is makes it less shocking? The lines to get up it were itty bitty. I couldn't believe it! And the line to climb the steps up it was non existent. We didn't go up this time, but last time the view was just incredible. So beautiful to see Paris from that angle.
We started to get a little tired and quite hungry about this point (as this was about 3 hours after we started) and opted to head back to the hotel for rest, food, and warmth. We stopped along the way to look in the windows of a real estate place and couldn't believe how expensive it is to live in Paris! We saw an ad for a 32 square meter (Sorry, I don't know what that is in feet) flat for 380,000 Euros! DANG! That is PRICEY for that little of space. Granted thats not really drastically more expensive than Copenhagen.
I had forgotten that you can see the tower from all over. So pretty.
To get back we walked along the Seine the entire way. It was a lovely walk. We admired all the bridges and buildings that line the river. We talked about who must live there and how one can afford to live in the buildings along that stretch of road.
Michaels Favorite Bridge
Pont Alexandre III
Me and Pont Alexandre III
When we travel we live off of bread. We aren't foodies so it doesn't phase us much if we do or don't eat good meals or the local food. Give us some bread and we couldn't be happier. We each got a baguette's. OOoo they were SOOOOO good.
Yes, I ate that entire thing by myself. :) 
After resting a little bit and warming up we braced what had turned into freezing cold weather. If we had more days in Paris, we would have called it a day at this point, but alas, we didn't. So we bundled back up....and marched on.
We have a tradition that on our anniversary we take a picture together with a Christmas Tree. Any Christmas tree. So our first stop was to get a picture with the tree outside of Notre Dame.
From there we had no direction and we just walked. We saw this cute little skating rink set up complete with 3 igloos. This is the little kids skating area. Parents were pushing their kids around in little seats and other kids were using cute little things to help them from falling.
We walked up a bunch of smaller streets and saw this very decorated little restaurant, with the most over the top nativity scene I have seen in a long time.
We only walked about an hour before we decided it was just way too cold to be outside any longer and headed back past Notre Dame and back to the hotel again.
This is a boat that was sitting on the river. It has grass on it. We thought it was perfect for a picnic.
Since we had both been a little under the weather and then suffered cold weather all day we both weren't feeling 100% and so didn't do anything fancy for dinner as we had planned. We hopped about a block from our hotel for a quick bite to eat and a *gasp* Tex Mex Restaurant (Yes, Myra, it was Indiana Cafe, and we did talk about our margaritas and you speaking French to the waitress).
The street where the restaurant was located
The best thing came after dinner when we went to the Patisserie across the street from the hotel for some desserts to split and Nicolas wine shop where we purchased some bottles of wine to bring home and a half bottle of wine to drink with dessert.Me with my wine and half a brownie
Brownie
Apple Tart
I hadn't seen this little symbol before. It made me laugh
After we ate we watched the Democratic debates on CNN. We felt very political I suppose because we were looking forward to watching it after seeing the Republican debate the day before. We had an awesome anniversary. It was especially nice because Michael turned off his phone so no one from TI could reach him at all. He enjoyed having a full day of no work to be bothered with because they are incredibly busy right now. We had an INCREDIBLE day in Paris. Even though we were under the weather a little bit and it was FREEZING it was still SO much fun to just BE there and be there together. :o)
