Woke up and went down for breakfast. The hotel restaurant will be closed the rest of the day so we grabbed baguettes, lunchmeat and cheese to make sandwiches. We took the Metro to the Trocadero and headed to the Eiffel Tower. The lines were so long we just took pictures around the complex. The line to walk up the one pillar was short but Tracy did not want to climb that high. The sun came out and made for great pictures. We walked back to the bridge and decided to take a Seine river ride. We bought tickets and had 45 minutes to kill so we walked through the village huts and shopped, I tried two different Mulled wines, the second one was better. We purchased earmuffs for ourselves. We got on the boat and headed to the top, which was open air. The ride was an hour and a half. It started raining on the way back. After the boat ride, we started looking for a Metro stop near the Eiffel Tower. Surprisingly there was no station in sight. We walked along the river until we found one, it dead-ended at the Arc de Triumph, perfect that's were we wanted to go. We took pictures but the top was closed this day so we could not get great shots of the roundabout. I was surprised by the number of people out and by the number of shops and restaurant that were open. We started walking down the Champs Elysees and got to the Xmas hunt village. Tracy bought Christmas teas and a tea ball, we both got ham and cheese crepes and sat down at a park bench behind the huts. We decide to head back to the hotel, but continued our tour of the huts to the Place de la Concorde. When we got to the square it was a challenge finding a Metro, I got lucky and found one within five minutes. We got back to the hotel around 5PM and called our parents to wish them Merry Christmas. Mom and Dad were not home but they called back in 30 minutes. Check the status of the bags, still no news. We laid down for a bit. Afterwards went to dinner at Julien’s which we made Christmas dinner reservations at a few days before. The whole night was very nice, the dinner was very good, the atmosphere was very cool. After dinner, we walked around the hood for a bit then back to the hotel.
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