11 Mai - Layover in Paris and arrival in Germany

What better way to get adjusted to the time difference than to spend our first day after very little sleep on the plane, wandering around in Paris all day?  Paris has never been on the top of my must-see list, but I figured since our layover was there, then why not.  If it turned out to be an amazing place that I couldn't stand not to see more of, then we could return for a day or weekend trip some other time.
	We hopped a bus headed for the center of Paris and walked to the Eiffel Tower.  I must admit, the architecture in Paris is amazing... such attention to detail and beautiful artwork.
The streets were crowded with hustling and bustling people that seemed to smell excessively perfumed.  The Eiffel Tower was nice, but we skipped the walk up to see the view.
	We walked through some parks and along the canal.
Then we zig zagged our way to Le Louvre stopping for crepes along the way.  I told Skylar we would hit the first crepe stand we saw when we got there, not realizing that there are crepe stands everywhere.
	Le Louvre is a phenomenal museum. There was a surrounding park area with sculptures.
The museum buildings are amazing and expansive.
	We didn't have time to see everything...
but made a point to see the Mona Lisa.
By the time we headed back to the airport, we were sore and exhausted.  It took us a while to figure out how to get back to where we started to catch the bus and unfortunately for us, we had to walk it.  We quickly found that almost no one speaks English.  It wasn't too much of a problem though because very much like New York or any other big city, people kept to their own and weren't interested in idle chit chat, but asking the bus drivers for help was impossible.
We arrived in Frankfurt, Germany at 10 pm.  Diana (my adviser) picked us up and we hauled all our belongings to her van (which she got from being part of a car share).  At about midnight, we arrived in Heilbronn.  The place we are staying at is in an adorable little area surrounded by wine vineyards and is only about 3 km from the university.  Nora (my roommate) kindly provided us with a futon bed to sleep on and the use of all of her kitchen stuff.  Diana bought me so much stuff, it took us over an hour to get it all inside.  She got me a table, a bunch of cloth storage type boxes for our clothes, towels, sheets, pillows, more kitchen stuff, a shoe rack, a duvet, a bookcase, and other stuff that I can't even think of right now.  I don't even know how all this stuff will fit in this 400 sq ft room.
After getting everything in the room and saying goodnight to Diana at about 2am, the first thing I did was try the internet... Nora gave me the password, but German numbers are one of the first things I apparently need to figure out.