Oh What a Night!

Today we slept in...until 1:00PM.  We took our time getting lunch and getting ready and eventually headed towards the Eiffel Tower.  Trying to delay our time until sunset, we window shopped on the main shopping street only to find a protest outside of Sephora.  The after party in the shop was awesome.  The manager started a dance party.  Eventually we made our way to the tower in hopes to go to the top.  It was still light out, so we sat in the park on a sheet from our beds that we brought and opened a bottle of wine and cheese to enjoy on our last night.  Around 9:45 we made our way to the lines only to discover that we were in the wrong one.  A storm had started brewing in the distance, but we were still allowed to go up.  After we changed lines the storm picked up a bit, along with the rain.  So we pulled out our sheet/blanket and then made it into an umbrella.  Not even thirty seconds later it started POURING rain and the strongest winds came with it.  People started jumping over the bars and we started running through them, eventually making it inside the west foot of the tower.  We were locked in there for about 20 minutes until the storm somewhat passed and then we had to leave.  As we started walking back 5 cops used us as a shield to hide behind as they attempted to catch the illegal street sellers, terrifying us because we did not know what was going on.  Needless to say, it was very eventful and very fun.  We are off to Barcelona at 5AM tomorrow.  

Paz y Amor,

Laura