Sunday, February 16, 2014

Winter Vacation Day 5 - Paris

New Years Eve Day is a crazy time to be in Paris (mostly because everyone else is there too)

Quick breakfast (croissants and espresso of course)

Walking to Musee d'Orsay

Little bit of rain, great red umbrella

Looong lines at the museum too. With tickets, we waited 2 hours.

Still happy after a long wait in some light rain

The museum used to be a train station, pretty neat from above



Behind the clock

Sacre Coeur on the horizon


Ferris wheel

Behind the clock is a place to rest on a strange strange chair

No photos ;-)



Statues outside the museum 

Heading to the open-air market to get food for breakfast (cheese and bread of course)


Cheese shop

Seafood


Cocktail hour before dinner

 
Our New Year's Eve dinner

Wonderful dinner at Vin & Maree

Starter

Delicious wine and pretty mama

Cheers

Preparing for the venture out to the Eiffel Tower (putting champagne into a bottle)

Police prepared for the crowds - took us about 10 minutes to just exit the metro because of the all the people at the Champs Elysees. It was incredibly crowded, thousands upon thousands

We started at the Champs Elysees, but it was a bit too crazy so after a few photos we started towards the Eiffel Tower


Arc de Triomphe in the background

Walking with many others toward the Eiffel Tower

Our final spot, close enough to see the Eiffel Tower without too many thousands surrounding us

NYE!






The Eiffel Tower light up for NYE

Love

The Tower sparkling as we walk home

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