I had SO MUCH FUN in Paris!!! Getting there was an adventure (you can read about it in the previous blog!) Everything about the trip surpassed my expectations… I think a list format will make this easiest:
1. The hostel- We stayed at Jules Ferry Hostel right by the Republica metro station. The hostel was clean, had good showers, cool people and wasn’t scary. There was also a breakfast every morning of baguettes , applesauce and orange juice. It was a great place to meet other people.
2. The Louvre Museum- It was huge!!! We went right after I got to the hostel Saturday morning. I explored with Kylie and we had fun looking at Napoleon’s Apartment, statues, the Mona Lisa, and several pictures that we both could have sworn we’d seen on missalettes. The exterior of the Louvre was almost as fun as the inside was. We took plenty of pictures by the pyramid.
3. Hotel de Ville- Ummm… it was an old building with an ice skating rink outside. We had dinner across the street though at a little French place. I had a salmon quiche which looked and tasted 5x better than everyone else’s stuff.
4. Notre Dame – Haha… well we got turned around looking for this and first walked around a building remarking on how much more impressive we expected the Notre Dame to be. We walked down the street a little and found the real deal and we were very impressed. As we toured the inside there was a mass going on. It felt awfully strange to be looking at the church while people were in mass. But nonetheless the church was very beautiful.
5. Night Life- Crepes are AMAZING! I had one from a side of the road stand that had bananas and nutella. I think that combination may be my new favorite thing. We made friends with some people in the hostel and then Kylie and I went down to the bastille area with them to go to pubs, where we met even more people. We rode the subway and got back somewhere around 1am.
6. Eiffel Tower- Valentine’s Day was positively wonderful! I went to the Eiffel Tower with the girls and we had perfectly blue skies. Everything about the tower was fabulous. I’ve wanted to see it since I was in third grade and I thought my expectations would be too high for it to measure up to, I couldn’t have been more wrong… I was literally jumping up and down and skipping when I saw it. Even thinking about it now has the same effect on me Kylie and I bought Eiffel Towers that we had to carry around the whole rest of the day like true tourists…
7. Arc de Triomphe- Big! It was nice to look at, a little difficult to get to but worth it. It was just so impressive.
8. Palace of Versailles- We took the subway (or a few) to Versailles. The girls went in with their Paris passes and explored the inside while I stayed outside and explored the gardens and the grand splendor of the exterior of the palace.
9. Eiffel Tower at Night- A M A Z I N G!!! We got there and as soon as we walked up it started twinkling, absolutely breathtaking. I was speechless except for little woo’s of excitement that escaped.
10. Exploring ‘actual Paris’- I took some time Monday morning before I had to leave to explore the area around the Republica. I had some sort of hot drink in a little picturesque café and stopped at some shops around the area. I bought perfume from Paris, so now every morning I can think of Paris while I get ready.
Everything about Paris was great…
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