l'anniversaire à Paris..... La Tour Eiffel

Sunday was our actual anniversary the 7th of September, one whole year!!! WOW

We decided to have a leisurley day and had our breakfast delivered to our room!!!! yay for room service!

Then we headded into the city to have a look through the Musee national de l'Orangerie, an art museum which contains some of Monet's waterlilly paintings. They were absolutly beautiful and very worth seeing. There were two large oval rooms each with four of Monet's huge waterlilly painitngs. It was quite an experience to see them displayed in such a way. We also saw some other impressionist paintings by famous artists.

We then relaxed by the fountain in Jardin des Tuileries, and ate the most massive icecreams which were two flavours of soft serve mixed together, mmmmmmmm

This evening we dined in the resturant on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower!!!! which Jeremy was very proud to have booked over the phone in french!!

We arrived while it was still light and took heaps of photos of the tower from the national theatre which has the best view. Close up it is the most amazing building and really huge, Jeremy was suprised about the colour of it (its kinda dull brown), he was expecting it to be more copper-ey, not to be painted. we got to skip the hour long queue cos of our dinner reservation and go straight up the lift to the first floor. We had a look around the view was beautiful, the river runs next to the tower and we could see all of the landmarks we had already visited.

Dinner was yummy and we had champane, it was very romantic especially as there was the most incredible sunset over the city which lit up the whole resturant in red and orange. we finished with super decadant mentling chocolate cake, mmmmmmm it was soo good!!! By the time we had eaten it was fully dark and all the lights in the city had come on and the tower had been lit up all blue.

we took the next lift up to the second floor for more views over the city, each time from a slightly higher angle. then took the next lift to the top floor. the lift went up and up and just kept going up, oh boy it was very high at the top and the lifts have windows so it was a wee bit scary!!!!!

The view from the top was so worth the wait in the queue and the scarness, we were so high that the wole of paris was laid out in every direction, the hill of Montmartre looked flat and it was a clear night so we could see for miles. it was so beautiful, the streets with the tall (6-7 story) treeaced houses looked like channels in the cityscape, it was really quite amazing. Absolutly beautiful, i cant really describe it and i cant get over it!!!

It was such a beautiful romantic evening, the perfect anniversary.