Our wake up time came early for family pictures. We were meeting our photographer Rachel at 7am to try and avoid the crowds. We were supposed to leave the apartment at 6:50 to head to meet her but left a little bit late.

It was a chilly morning that we hadn’t prepared for. Logan and I wore our raincoats to keep us warm between pics and Maddie had a sweatshirt she would put on every time she could.

Rachel made lots of jokes and tried to keep things light. For some reason she kept calling Logan Jordan (probably because it was early and six names is too difficult that early!)

By the time we were done (around 8:40) we were all freezing. We went back to the apartment to change and warm up. Greg, Logan and Brooks walked to get us Starbucks and some pastries for breakfast.

Greg, Brooks and I decided to leave around 10:30 to head to Sacre Coure before finding lunch. Maddie and Jake decided to stay home and rest before heading out for lunch.

We then started our walk up the hill.

We finally made it to the top.

After a short time admiring the views we started the descent.

Now to find lunch. If only we could find something that sounded good.

We decided to take the subway back toward the Arc de Triomphé to eat around there and then walk to the Eiffel Tower. The boys were serenaded.

I stopped in the Swatch store that I somehow missed yesterday. I’m happy to say nothing jumped out as a must have. If they had brought back the see through ones we might have had a problem. We stopped in a few more shops before stopped at an outdoor cafe for lunch.

Next stop: Eiffel Tower.