Yesterday, my day was all about eiffel. Some au pairs where going to go ice skating at the Eiffel Tower and the friend I made last saturday invited me to come. After dropping off the youngest kid at daycare I decided to head to the tower even if we were only supposed to meet at 11:45 (I dropped off the kid at 9:30). I bought a lunch in a boulangerie (I've come to love boulangeries because they have the best pastries at a very affordable price and they have cheap sandwiches/food) and walked to the eiffel tower. I sat in a bench in the Champ de Mars and ate my sandwich. Lunch in front of the eiffel tower, check.
I then walked around the Champs, just to kill time. It was so nice and peaceful, it felt like I was in a different city. I've come to like parks like this, Paris can be such a hectic city and people always seem to be rushing, so being in a park it calms me down. It's like a small get away from all the craziness of the city.
I then met up with my friend and we walked to the carrousel in front of the tower to meet the other girls. We decided to take the stairs to go up the tower instead of the elevator because of two things:
1-There was a huge line for the elevator
2-It's so much cheaper
I think I should clear something, you guys are probably thinking "Wow, she's being so cheap for everything!' but trust me, everything here is so expensive, and well I live out of my au pair stipend, so I try to cut down cost in as much as I can so the money can last me longer and I can save it for when I want to take weekend trips.
Okay, so going back to the stairs... Omg, that was such a work out, I am so out of shape!! To think that in 1905 there was a record of someone RUNNING up the stairs to the 1st floor (I think 2nd, or 1st not sure) in 3 min and 10 seconds (or something like that)!!!! It took us like 10 minutes to WALK up the stairs (minus us taking pictures midway up) and those 10 minutes felt like 20 haha. I clearly need to start working out again.
We then finally made it to the 1st floor (we had only paid to get to the 2nd floor, I think to get to the third you actually need to take the elevator ) and we ice skated for a while. It was a small ice rink and very bumpy but it was free and it wasn't so bad. It was nice, and the view was amazing, which also made it so dangerous because you're skating and then you look on the other side and bam! there's the Champ de Mars, Paris...it was hard to not get distracted haha.
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| Going up the stairs |
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| The view from the ice skating rink |
After that we went up to the 2nd floor and took some pictures. We then went down the stairs and went to Trocadero to take more pictures.
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| View of the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero |
We got together last night and went to club 67 (pronounced six seven and not sixty seven haha). After me taking us to the wrong metro and in the wrong direction (that was not the time to have bad orientation, we were all wearing high heels!) we finally made it to the club. When we got in, we saw that nobody was dancing, even if there was a lot of people. We then realized that there was something going on in the dance floor, and you will never guess what it was.... STRIP TEASE SHOW!
It was SO random, and confusing...had I brought us to a strip club? It was so funny though, because it was a strip tease show for girls ( I guess it was their birthday) and well one of the dancers was dressed as a Marine, and another guy covered himself with the american flag haha. Oh and then there was some girl on girl action, yes boys, girl on girl. They brought this girl to the stage and then this female dancer, stripper whatever she was, told her to lie down on the floor and well... she did her routine to say the least. I didn't see much, because by that time it was more crowded and more people around the circle (and of course, now there was more men in the circle haha, it must've made their night).
We stayed there until 2:30 (the strip tease didn't go all night thankfully because I really wanted to dance and blow off some steam) because I didn't know how I was going to get home (there was no more metro). I knew there was a night bus that went to my house but I had to take it at Chatelet..problem is I didn't know how to get to Chatelet from the Champs Elysees!!
Thankfully right next to the club, there was a bus stop that went to Chatelet (thank you God!) and I had my first bus ride in Paris. Let me tell you taking the bus is so complicated! Thankfully they mention the stops in the bus because if not, I would have never known when to get off. But even when you get off the bus its so complicated to try to find your next bus. I definitely cannot be drunk and take the bus, too risky. I think I would get lost.
I got off at chatelet and turns out there are different "bus stops" with the name chatelet. So you pretty much have to find the right bus house thingy (totally blanket out on the word for what those bus house thingy's are called). Thankfully I am not afraid of asking for directions haha, and I found my way!
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