Of course I am slacking on the posts again. I am just so busy I can't help it :)So last weekend I was in Paris, the most beautiful city (title of this post in French), visiting one of my best friends, Jordan "gnome" Houston, from Pleasanton and San Diego State. Jordan is a crazy little thing so we were destined to have a great time. It was a big girls' weekend with 7 girls visiting: Me, Megan, and Britney from Madrid and Cassie, Bree, Brit, and Katie from Barcelona, everyone from SDSU except me.
(left: Eiffel Tower with Megan) After Meg and I figured out how to transport ourselves from the airport to the city center/Jordan's dorm, we went out for our first Parisian adventure. It was pure chaos with a group of this size so the night was kind of a failure. Megan and I were completely sober which just amplified the cold and our frustration, so we decided to call it a night early in order to have a productive day of sightseeing.
Friday I experienced my first French croissant for breakfast and then my first EVER crepe for lunch! It was delicious and cheap and it was so neat how they made them right in front of you at their little street vendor set ups. Everyone refused to wake up so Me, Megan and Britney went on our own to see the Eiffel Tower. "Wow" is all I could think when I saw it. It was huge and the color was much more brown than I expected. Once we took pictures, went for snacks and drinks and bought some postcards, the other girls finally met up with us for our second Eiffel Tower photo shoot. We then made our way to the Arc de Triomphe (pictured above: Me & Jordan) which was WAYYYY bigger than I expected. The sun was setting at this point so we went to the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur which was this beautiful white church on a hill overlooking the entire city of Paris. It was a gorgeous view and we had a great time enjoying the performers and entertainers. Once it was dark and absolutely freezing, we made our way down the hill and to
the Moulin Rouge which was just as amazing as I imagined! It was in this crazy area of sex shops and strip clubs and there were so many normal people walking around haha! Apparently that kind of thing has no affect on the French people. We bought some paninis for dinner and went out to a cool Scottish bar (?) that night. On our way there, we walked across the Seine River and were able to the Eiffel Tower sparkling in the distance. Such a beautiful city!! (above: overlooking Paris from the Basilica)Saturday was pretty much a repeat of Friday in the sense that nobody would get up in the morning besides me, Megan and Britney. We bought some more croissants for brunch and went to the Lourve which was fanstastic! Even better than fantastic if that's possible. The building itself is amazingly huge and old and beautiful. We got in for free as students (score!), so we decided to do the audio guided tour for 6 euro. It led us through a large portion of the museum and it focused on the three main masterpeices: the ancient Greek statues of Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and of course our Italian fave, Mona Lisa! Everything was so amazing, I could have stayed there all day. I appreciate art so much here, it really helps define culture and history.
Then we were off to visit the Notre Dame Cathedral, a huge Gothic stlye church which of course was beautiful like everything else in Paris. We also went to a cute cafe for lunch consisting of bread, salad and soup. French food is very good!! We then met up with the other girls for some shopping :) I bought one cheap shirt even though it was hard stopping there. We went for drinks and relaxed before heading home to make microwaveable dinners. For our last night, we ended up at this really fun bar/club and at around 3am me, Britney and Megan called it an "early" night because we had an early flight to catch. Its probably safe to say that we got 2 hours of sleep, definately woke up still tipsy and successfully made it back to Madrid in one piece!
(above: all of the girls at the Siene River with the Effel Tower in the background!!)
Paris is so amazing, I definately plan on making it back again one day. 2 days just isn't enough to truely enjoy it. And the French people aren't really that bad! Their language is too beautiful to not like them and for the most part they were all very friendly, even to the loud obnoxious Americans :)
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