Bastille Day at the Eiffel Tower

Finally we come to the portion of the program that everyone has been waiting for...Bastille Day Night!! Or perhaps I should just say Bastille Night? I don't know. What's summer time without at least one night of spending hours sitting on the lawn waiting for the fireworks to get started? With that in mind Sara and I made the brave decision of staking out a bench along the perimeter of the Champ de Mars at about six o'clock, on which we planned to wait until the firework show surrounding the Eiffel Tower began at eleven. Our bench didn't afford a very good view of the tower because it was surrounded with trees, but we figured that when the fireworks started we'd just get up and stand in the pathway in front of the bench. There we sat and sat and sat, while the sun set and set and set. Meanwhile, the other people waiting, who had originally been on the grass across the pathway, began to get larger and larger and drunker and drunker. Before we knew it, the pathway was gone and the people were becoming so many that we were surrounded. To avoid drowning in the high tide we moved behind us on the other side of the trees and sat in the sand. The picture up yonder is of the view from our bench. Isn't it a cool picture. There were a lot of people there.