1st night in Paris

After a much needed shower and nap, we were off to explore Paris!  Karen, her Mom-Mercedes and I headed to the corner cafe for some cheese and wine while Brenda and her Mom got ready for our night out.  We had our first of many evenings at Cafe Roussillon!  Here we sat in the corner with a street view-great for people watching.  We had some wine and a cheese plate-the cheese was very good-only one I didn't try was the blue cheese-not a big fan!

No- I did not drink all of these!  LOL  I only had the red that night ;-)

Our table was the last one on the right-this was just 3 builidngs down from our hotel.  Great location!!  We also met Nickolai-our waiter every night!  Very nice place with great staff.  Karen fell in love with the hand dryer-can't believe we did not get a pic with the waiters or the dryer!  The hand dryer was in the restroom and you placed your hands in the opening and hot air blasted out to dry your hands-Karen was very impressed by this!

Once we met up with Brenda and her Mom, we headed out to our Open Bus Night Illumination Tour.  It was a tour on a Double Decker bus that went by all the famous sites light up by flood lights.   This was the only time we needed our coats.  The sites were so pretty to see at night.  Especially our favorite-the Eiffel Tower! 

The Notre Dame-not a great shot-the night pics didn't come out so great...

Crossing over the Seine River

Me on the bus

Brenda on the bus...

We also had some awesome desserts that night at a great little cafe around the corner from our bus tour.  I had Profiteroles with ice cream and hot chocolate sauce-yummmm!!!  So good!  We needed the energy for our long hike back to the hotel.  We were staying on the Left Bank-Rive Gauche-and the bus tour started/stopped by the Louvre-on the Right Bank-Rive Droit.  We walked a lot that night!  I guess in our excitement, we didn't stop to think about transportation to and from!  But the walk was awesome.  Paris really never sleeps.  There were so many people out that I never felt unsafe walking around.  But we needed our rest because we had our trip to Versailles the next day.....