At midnight last night, or this morning, whichever, there were fireworks going off everywhere for Bastille Day... we were already in bed so we only heard them, but tonight we are going to see fireworks at the Eiffel Tower! So fun.
It is soooo hot here, at least here in this Internet cafe. In the city it is warm, but mostly just really humid. The Metro gets pretty stuffy, but everywhere else it's not too bad in the shade. We are trying to drink a lot (not always fun when we have to pay for the toilets), but we are at least able to find free water fountains to fill up our bottles. The water here is good... not famous like in Rome, not something the locals are proud of like in Venice, but nice and wet. I wanted to mention the Venice water when we were there, but I forgot. We saw the Grand Canal yesterday at Versailles, which made me think of it. The canals in the real Venice are actually kind of gross, with all the boat traffic and such... lots of garbage in the water as well, and it smells kind of funny. Sometimes when the water was murky enough, and the garbage was floating just so, it looked like something out of a Salvador Dali painting, which I thought was fun. The water here that we've seen is not so dirty. Right now we came from the Luxembourg Gardens, which have some great people-watching, and the tiniest pond ever. I could probably spit across it, but there were kids of all ages out floating their toy boats and just having a blast.
We don't have much time here so I will sign off for now, and wish you all a very happy Bastille Day! (Look it up if you don't know anything about it.)
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I hope you find some good water at the Pump Room! I remember it tasting kind of metallic, but the tea should be tasty.
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