Eiffel Tower and The Louvre

On our first full day in Paris we managed to sleep in until 10, visit the Eiffel Tower,  the Louvre,  and a museum filled with plaster casts of many famous French buildings called Cite de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine.  During all that we stopped for crepes at a roadside vendor,  rode the metro and helped a woman find her way to the Eiffel Tower while she was on layover going to South Africa.  We strolled along the Seine at midnight and got a nice photo of Ecole des Beaux-Arts lit up at night. The Louvre was not too crowded and we managed front row viewing of the Mona Lisa and many other major pieces like the Venus de Milo and The Raft of Medusa. We also took a "detour" through the glitzy gilt apartments of Napoleon III, to see how the other half lives. The weather was perfect in the low 70s, although it did get a bit hazy in the afternoon.  A great time was had all the way around!