(Insert Dora the Explorer song here)

 Going to keep this short and sweet because 1. I’m somewhere in between exhausted pigeon and sleeping beauty (- the whole prince who kisses me to wake me up from my slumber part). 2. There’s only so many details that I could tell you about our 24,000+ steps day. Needless to say a few days of bad jet lag and now I’m finally feeling a bit normal. Today we spent the day exploring the city. We got to see the Notre-Dame Cathedral in its current state of repair, the Arc de Triomphe, as well as many other various city sights. We also got to visit the Eiffel Tower in which if you spent

any time in my house specifically my bedroom from ages 12-28 you know is a pretty darn big deal. I loved every second of it and only regret not taking Angie’s picture out of my bag to document it all. 

Unfortunately Paris has has riots for the past few days after a police officer shot and killed a 17 year old at a routine traffic stop so the city hasn’t been the safest. We visited the Eiffel Tower during the day and wanted to come back in order to see it sparkle but after being lit up it was clearly we needed to get out of that part of that city. There were many police officers in sight and on our walk back to the train we saw a few chase a man with their guns aimed towards him. Later when we arrived back to the hotel, the news showed the area we had been in just 15-20 minutes prior full of angry rioters with Molotov cocktails. Was hard to know what areas would be open and what would be boarded up. Either way Disneyland Paris was already our plan for tomorrow so we should be plenty of distance away from the rioting.