claustraphobia, sewer tours, & es cargot

bon jour! ah, today... what a day. we started off with some delicious breakfast at about 8:30- it was way nice to sleep in. i sure am going to miss those amazing pastries with chocolate in the middle. ah, heaven. after breakfast, we headed off towards the eiffel tower so we could climb most of it! we got there, waited in line... and started the climb. i am slightly scared of heights, but it wasn't too bad. i just buckled down and went up. =) we went up about half-way (500 feet about), and then we were supposed to take an elevator up to the third level. talk about scarring... in paris there is no air conditioning, and there is no way around the fact that i am completely claustrophobic. of course i wanted to go up, and i felt like i was going to hyperventilate right before we got on, but i just got on anyways. they packed everyone into the wussiest small elevator that was stinkin' hot... and made creaky noises. not to mention the idiot lady who obviously was ms. captain-obvious who let us all know that it was really hot, and too high up. DUH LADY. we know that it's the freakiest thing ever. so yeah, i cried. the end. it was horrifying, and i am glad that's over. but i survived and i got a strawberry ice cream for my valiant efforts. haha. after the eiffel tower, we started walking towards another art museum. my uncle steve told my mom that the paris sewer tour was really cool. (yeah.) anyways, we went on the sewer tour. i figured it might be cool, seeing where ratatouille was from and all that. yeah, there was all of ratatouille's fearsome, foul, & freaky cousins were down there. AND it smelled like filth. PURE FILTH. i literally walked over a river of poop. literally. it was disgusting and i am pretty sure i have the black lung. after about fifteen seconds of me plugging my nose, i started telling my family i had to get out. so i did... i ran and screamed and plugged my nose. needless to say, we finished our "tour" of poop that was supposed to last for 45 minutes in about 10. we spent more time in the poop-land gift shop looking at the (i kid you not) rat hand puppets. awesome. so after i gagged a million times, we got above to the "fresh" air. we sat on the grass and just chilled for a while. then we went to a classier museum, and saw all of the degas paintings of ballerinas that i wanted to see yesterday. it was way fun, and i got three mini poster things to hang up in my room next year. =) they're pretty. fun fun fun. after that, we aimed to go back to the hotel for a break. we got caught up by crepes. uh, holy delicious! crepes are amazing! i got a chocolate and banana crepe! the process of ordering them was slightly difficult since the man didn't understand us. but hey, we got them in the end. and eventually we made it back to the hotel for our break. later that night, we went to this artsy part of town for dinner. we rode the metro (without getting lost), and went to this amazingly delicious and adorable restaurant. i had es cargot!!! really! and it was super good! i also had salmon and this raspberry dessert. after our long dinner, we came back to the hotel, and here i am! last day of our vacation!!! =( i am sad to leave. i like this life better. =( i'll write more tomorrow and upload these last pictures! good night!