What would possess someone to drink warm Heineken?

So... I'm going to do my best not to bore you all in summarizing the past two days, which have been absolutely AMAZING!  Yesterday we walked pretty much all over Paris- that is not a joke.  I went to mapmyrun.com to look up approximately how far we traveled, and it was at the very least 12 miles.  Some highlights:

1)  Starting off our morning with a french breakfast- croissants, chocolat chaud, and jus d'orange (hot chocolate and orange juice, respectively, in case you didn't catch that...) and then met a wonderful Parisian woman who gave us directions and told us that we spoke French very well.
2)  Walked to the monument commemorating the Bastille- a symbol of the French revolution (the actual building was destroyed in 1789 and if you're interested, you can look up more info on wikipedia!)

One of my favorites @ Notre Dame

3)  Saw the Notre Dame inside and out... what a beautiful building.  I absolutely love the stained glass windows :)
4)  McDonald's for lunch- you'll just have to trust me on this one!  McDonald's (MacDo) in France isn't at all the same as in the U.S.  It was actually pretty classy!  (Even more than the 50s theme in Rice Lake, for those of you that have had the good fortune to visit... haha)
5)  Shopped at H & M... Hannah found two nice coats that will serve her well when it gets a little colder and I bought a couple of sweaters to layer with and some adorable purple flats.
6)  Bought TGV (the fast train) tickets to get us down to the south of France at the end of the week, as well as a "Carte 12-25" which guarantees us discounts of at least 25 and up to 60% on all future train rides for being between the ages of 12 and 25.  The ticket counter man told us our French was very good... which we thought was an excellent compliment, since we're sure he deals with a lot of foreigners.

Hannah and Me- Champs de Mars!

7)  The EIFFEL TOWER!! It never gets old.  We got there right as the sun was setting and walked down the whole Champs de Mars to arrive at the bottom.  The first light show actually happened while we were ascending and we watched the second light show from the ground after we got back down. The ascenseur (elevator) was packed and we would have had to wait forever to get on another one (there's one from the 3rd level to the 2nd and one from the 2nd to the ground) so we just walked.  It was a very long walk down, as you might imagine.  But it's the Eiffel Tower, so it's mandatory to love every minute of it :)
8)  Classy classy (actual class, not like our McDonald's lunch) dinner at a French restaurant, where we ate penne pasta with delicious tomato sauce and fresh parmesan cheese and baguettes and split a half-bottle of rosé wine.
9)  Our first experience with the French metro, since our feet hurt much too much to walk one step further.  Conclusions:  the Parisian metro's like the metro in London... extremely user-friendly and ridiculously easy to get anywhere you want.  (Not like in Rome, where the metro's practically useless.)
10)  Talked to family, friends, and each other... and staying up til 4 in the morning (sorry, mom and dad!) about how much fun we are having.
11)  Slept in til after noon (yes, you did read that correctly!) and then heading out for another beautiful day.
12)  Picked up pre-packaged sandwiches and fruit for a picnic lunch in la cimetière Père Lachaise.  While there, we managed to get lost and avoid seeing any of the famous people buried there that we had planned to search for... but we had a wonderful time anyway and saw a lot of really cool- and really sad- family tombs.
13)  Fulfilled Hannah's lifelong (well... important, anyway...) dream of seeing where Lafayette is buried, in a very secretive hidden cemetery full of other important people.

Sacre- Coeur

14)  Visited the wonderful, beautiful, amazing Sacre- Cœur, which is the highest place in Paris.  It's famous for having someone continuously praying since 1885 and is thus currently celebrating its 125th anniversary of continuous prayer.  It's also the site of some really exciting street performances and vendors that practically assault you to try to sell you a bracelet that they'll wrap on your wrist.  This is also the origin of today's title.  Some of the other vendors (not the ones with bracelets) sell drinks for people who want to sit and enjoy the view on the steps.  They carry around 6-packs of Heineken, but no ice or anything.  I want to know... why Heineken?  And who likes warm beer?  Any input would be much appreciated.
16)  Ate delicious gelato and checked out local artistes' work at Montmartre.  We were asked if we wanted our portraits drawn and, when we turned down that offer, were also asked if we were "looking for boys" for the evening.  The three all offered themselves and even told us they were "free!" but we managed to turn down that offer too.  :)
17)  Took the metro back to our hotel at rush hour and had to wait for an extra train because there were so many people that we couldn't even get on the first one.  No problems other than that, though!
18)  Last but certainly not least, bought dinner at the supermarket down the street- an "awful white bread packaged sandwich with .026 oz of ham" for Hannah and French off-brand mini cereal boxes with the worst (whole) milk that I have ever tasted in my life (which ended up getting dumped down the toilet) for me.  On the bright side, we split a very tasty 4-euro bottle of wine, which is now empty.

On that note, I'm going to hit the hay and bid you all bonsoir!  More fun and exciting news to come tomorrow :)