Well this was an interesting 48 hours

Today was our only full day in Paris. We started the day by going to the Eiffel Tower. This time using the metro to not become quite as lost in the labyrinth of Paris. As soon as we walked onto the main plaza underneath the tower we couldn't believe how long the line was at ten in the morning! But then we realized the line was for the tram cars up and that there was no line for the steps, an so we climbed the steps as well as mentally noted another point for being active over being lazy. Although we couldn't get to the very top due to congestion, the view from the second floor was still amazingFor any other building it was somewhere around the early twenties. Plenty of photos and I bough at few things I just hope they haven't bent in my bag since I didn't have the time or space to put them away properly. From the Eiffel Tower we continued to chew through most of the world's bucket list items 
by visiting Notre Dame. The line there was just as long and in the sun so we passes on passing out in the 90-100 degree weather. After Notre Dame, Jelle and I walked over to the Louvre. Where the line took maybe five minutes even though in comparison to the ET or ND it should have been a half hour. Once inside we realized why it was so efficient. You enter the glass pyramid first and then are delivered by escalator (no steps) to the main lobby where there were four or five ticket booths along with a large information booth. Tickets for the museum were rather cheap! Only 10€   Per person. At first we didn't think of getting a map so we just wondered about,  by we eventually went back to the lobby and took a map. Of course we did what we had to do, and saw the Mona Lisa, which has it's own wall even though it's smaller than a good portion of other paintings in the Louvre. 
After the louvre, came the plaid de grande where the fencing world cup was just recently held. Unfortunately I was closed and we couldn't get inside but it had plenty of shade over it's fountains so we sought refuge from the sun for a little while. 
Last before heading to the train we ate dinner at a restaurant near our hostel. though what we didn't know was the check out time at the hostel so that is the reason that this is a late post, because I no longer had a space to sit down and type up how the day went. 
The train from Paris Austerlitz to Port Dou was three hours late, and it's a very crummy train, but what can you do? Then we fortunately meet two finish girls who spoke some French, and together we navigated to Barcelona. So now I am finally updating, sorry for the lack of Internet connection availability.