Paris, mon cherie!

The flight ended up being 2 hours, and it was time difference that made local time in Paris 6:30am, not the length of the flight! So we arrived in Charles de Galle with absolutely no sleep, no food and completely lost. We managed to figure out the train and get to the Gare du Nord train station to buy an overnight ticket to Belgium. This way, we could sleep on the train and not have to settle ourselves for too long in expensive Paris!
But there were no overnight trains to Brussles, only in the morning! We were stuck! We suddenly needed a place to stay! People at the station were really helpful and got us a map of cheap hostels. Hotels were about 119euro per night!!! ahh! so hostels were a must. Our bags were heavy so I thought that I would call places first, so I had to buy this really expensive phone card. I called the first place on the list, and asked "parle vous anglais?" Up until this point, everyone I asked this said yes. But the woman on the phone said no! My french is so, so bad, and I froze! I didn't know what to say or do so I just hung up!!! But exhausted, starving and at a loss for what to do, we decided that we needed to find somewhere, so we sucked it up, put on our bags, and with the hostel map in hand, we went looking. We found a really cheap place about 2 blocks away. This women didn't speak english either, and since all that could come to mind was Spanish, we dug out the lonely planet book, went to the language section in the back, and asked for a room. She had one, a very very cheap one, at 35euro for both of us.
But.... you get what you pay for...! 5 floors up, no elevator, smelly shared toilet, no shower, key barely works, room probably wasn't cleaned (garbage can still full = bedding not changed?)... hostels sacks are a godsend! All that mattered though is that we had somewhere to sleep and leave our bags. We slept all morning, then spent the afternoon picnicking under the Eiffel tower! We found some nice salad and fruit for our only meal of the day, and ate it on a grassy area at the base of one of the four pillars of the tower. We got some amazing photos. Then we wandered around the area, near Champs d'Elysees. There was a lot of green space and a beautiful park with a pond and waterfall near the tower. It was so nice. We stayed for sunset and watched the Eiffel tower light up and sparkle before taking the train back to our hotel. We survived the night at the creepy place and went to the train station in the morning for our ride to Brussles!