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Paris Trip Part II

**This is a continuation of the post below**

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The next morning, we ate breakfast at the apartment (as we did every morning)then went to see the Eiffel Tower. On the way to the Tower, we passed a very large palace (Trocadero) that was made for some aniversary of the Tower. It serves as a kind of "entrance" to the large structure from far away and serves as a very nice place from which to take pictures. From there we walked down a hill and across the river (via a bridge, of course) to the Eiffel Tower. It was so big. I always knew that it was large, but you really should see it in person to understand just how big of a feat it actually is. It was the world's tallest structure until the Empire State Building. From there we walked another long distance across the Champ de Mars (a big park-type thing leading to the Eiffel Tower from the other direction) to the Ecole Militare (the Military Academy), where we hopped on the subway to Arc de Triumph (that big arch in the middle of a really big traffic circle). Nathalie and I went to the top and looked around for a while at all of Paris and the 12 (12!) streets radiating out from the traffic circle under us. The biggest street coming from the circle was Champs Elysée, a street famous for lots and lots of stores lining the road. We all (me, Nathalie, and her parents) walked down that street (stopping to eat lunch) to the Concorde, where a big obelisk that Napoleon took from Egypt is at. We took the subway from there to the Invalides (right near our apartment) where Napoleon and some other people are burried. Napoleon's tomb is set lower in the ground and over a rail so that people have to bow whenever they want to see him. We didn't go see the tombs, though, because they weren't worth the money or time. We went back to the apartment and ate and rested for a little bit before going out again that night to see Notre Dame and the Latin Quarter (a lot like the French Quarter in Naw'lins) at nighttime. The Latin Quarter has lots of little restaurants (lots of gyros) and shops (with big cheeses in the windows.

That's the end of Day 1 of my Paris Trip, but my dad wants to use the internet on my computer for a little bit, so bye for now.