J'aime Paris

It's our spring break here (Semana Santa) so we have no school for 2 weeks! Taryn, Amanda and I went to Paris for 4 nights which was busy busy but amazing! The day before we left we took a trip to grocery store to buy a bunch of snack food and things to put on bocadillos we made for lunch everyday. We took the metro from the airport which took about an hour but it wasnt bad except I hate lugging around my suitcase especially on stairs. We arrived on Saturday night and had a picnic on our beds in the hotel room with peanut butter and jelly. We decided to wake up early to go to the museo. We woke up around 7:30 and went down for breakfast and had croissants and little baguettes with jelly and of course hot chocolate! We found this little convient store down the street so we bought some baguettes for lunch and these mexican chips that we ended up eating everyday. We went to the Musee D'Orsay and had to wait in line for about forty minutes. It kept raining on and off but it was fine becuase I had a hood on. After we looked at all the Impressionist paintings we wanted to see we went to Notre Dame which was pretty crowded. We wanted to go up the tower so we waited in line and watched this man with an old mans mask on scare people on the streets. He was funny but a little creepy. On the way to the line he grabbed onto Amanda's arm and scared all of us from his face. We climbed all the stairs which took awhile and then took some pictures of the view. We could see the whole city and I took pictures of the gargoyles which were my favorite. It was really windy up there and cold so we decided to rest in a coffee shop down the street and ended up splitting a banana and chocolate crepe! It was amazing and perfect after being out in the cold for so long. When we were eating the crepe our friends from Clark who had gotten into paris a few days earlier called us and wanted to meet up so we met them on the Champs-Elysees. We walked down the street and took some pictures of the Arc de Triumphe. Afterwards we wanted to go back to the hotel and rest before dinner. We found this cute restaurant down the street from our hotel that wasnt too expensive so we went there and I had pollo y frites and of course bread! It was so good and I finished all of it. We went back to the hotel because we were tired and wanted to see the Louvre the next day. On Monday we went to the Louvre and ran into some girls from Clark who were on spring break from the London program. It is a small world. After our lunch of bocadillos con atun we walked to the Tuleries and to the Champs-Elysees again to do a little shopping and sightseeing. We could see the Eiffel tower from the street so we decided to go up it but only to the second floor which is still really high. I took a few videos from the top of the tower and a lot a lot of pictures! We got hungry so decided to go to dinner and found a nice restaurant near the Louvre. We saw the Eiffel Tower all lit up at night and its so much prettier like that. On Tuesday we ended up going to Versaille which was sooooooo crowded. We did a lot of waiting and then had an audio tour which was nice. My favorite room is the hall of mirrors. The whole place is ridiculous. We didnt stay there as long as we thought so we went to the cemetary where Jim Morrison is buried and it was so hard to find. But we saw a bunch of people near his grave and figured it out. People left rolling papers on his grave and Amanda read in her book that they needed to put up fences around the grave because people would come at night and do illegal things there. Before dinner we went to Sacre Cour where we saw a ton of Americans that were really loud. That was annoying but the church is really beautiful. There was a service going on so we just walked around. We had dinner near the Moulin Rouge and got nutella and banana crepes on the street. I would eat one everyday theyre that good. We were so tired we went back and just packed for the rest of the night. The next day I bought some Mexican chips from the convient store for the road and we headed back to Madrid!