Happy May Day – the day where everything is closed.

Today is so cold in Paris.  I long for my winter coat.  It was so painful walking around in just a hoodie.

I got up and walked around Paris for a while.

Some pictures from my morning walk:

Then I took a sightseeing cruise.  I started outside and couldn’t make it the entire way through.  I was frozen solid.  I got some pictures before I quit:

Afterwards I walked to the Love Lock Bridge, which is when I realize/remember that I forgot my lock!  The whole idea of this is that you write the name of you and your love on a lock, attach it to the bridge, then throw the key in the water and your love lasts forever.  I had bought a lock before leaving and wrote “jennifer <3 life” on it. But I forgot my lock!  I hope this doesn’t mean I am going to die some day.  That just doesn’t feel like it would be my fate.  Sigh.

By this point, it is starting to rain.  Hard.  To the point I am now sporting a yellow plastic poncho.

I wanted to take good close up pictures of the Pont Alexandre III Bridge but the rain wouldn’t let me.

Even worse is my picture of Invalides:

I didn’t bother trying to get closer.

I then went to the Eiffel Tower.  I already wrote about my experience here:

Here are some pictures that came out horribly because of the rain:

Tomorrow morning, I am being picked up at 3:30 am by Supershuttle to go to the airport to fly to Naples.  Spoiler alert:  my day starts out with me first falling and then second, me getting locked inside my hotel.