Day 27/13 - Toulouse to Paris, France!

So this was an awaited day! The day we drove to Paris! It was a 7 hour drive, and we were planning on leaving at 8. Well, that didn't happen, because my parents got kicked out of the laundry mat the night before, before all our close were dry. We tried to hang them up in our rooms, but they didn't dry overnight, and we couldn't leave with wet clothes. So my parents went back to the laundry mat to finish drying everything. How nice of them. We had hoped for McDonald's breakfast, since it was right across the street from our hotel, but they aren't open for breakfast in France =[ But, there was an awesome bakery right across from McDonalds, so we stopped there and got some delicious pastries. Then it was off to Paris! After about half way through, we had just stopped for lunch and were back on the road, going through a toll, when we realize the car in front of us was our friends!! So we decided to follow them! Our GPS was telling us to go one way, but the signs and our friends went the other, so we decided to ignore Brenda for the moment, and follow our friends (we knew they were going to Paris). We finally caught up with them, and we turned on our walkie talkie (we each had one so we could talk on the road) and my dad starts flashing his lights at them and waving his arms around. They start talking to us on the walkie talkie and it was all fun! We eventually lost them because they were going to a hotel near Disneyland Paris, while ours is about 1 km from the Louvre, but we'll meet up with them again tomorrow. So we got to our hotel, and were off to see the Eiffel Tower! We had to take the metro to get there, since it was too far to walk, but we eventually made it. It was overcast and drizzling rain, but it was still super neat to be there! We walked down the park, and across the street from the Eiffel tower, and there were all these brides and limos. So we walked over to see what was going on, and they were all Chinese! Like 8 or 10 brides and grooms! SO we weren't sure if they were actually all getting married (we've seen mass Chinese weddings before) or if they were doing a photoshoot, trying to advertise for Chinese to get married here. But it was still neat to see all them dressed up. After that, Camille desperately wanted Subway for dinner, so we got her Subway, and then we took the metro home. We were walking back to our hotel so Camille could eat, and then we'd go find food, when we passed a sign saying gyros. Now I love gyros, so we walked in. Turns out, they had way more food then gyros, and none of us ended up having gyros, but we had so much other good food. We then had baklava and crepes for dessert. We will be going back to this restaurant, and thankfully its a 30 second walk from our hotel =] That was all!