Let’s talk about Paris

Paris was amazing. The end.

Just kidding, of course I will elaborate! 

So, Ali, Emmy and I left Rome at 6 pm. on Thursday for the Roman airport. Ali and I were super pumped because it was our first time out of Italy since we got here in August! We arrived to the airport smoothly and got onto the plane after eating some bomb pizza and a whole sleeve of Italian cookies. Sidenote: Italian airport food is better than America’s REAL food, so I’m just screwed when I go back to the States.

We landed safely in Paris  at around midnight and found our hostel in Paris!

Another sidenote: I am not a hostel person. Call me spoiled or whatever but im not down for sharing bathrooms and rooms with people you don’t even know.

However, we met up with SHLEBY! WOOP! And met her roommates, who knew HASHIM FROM CALIFORNIA> CRAZY SHIT

Friday:

We got up super early to meet our travel group, that is WSA( weekend student adventures) ((Rick Steve’s son runs it)) (((Rick Steves writes very famous travel guides))) and we were on our way after the hotel breakfast of great French bread and some cereal. Our tour guide, Kevi, was really cool, and took us first to the hipster section of town. It was called the sacre coeur- I think- and we went to a really nice church that looks over the whole city. Then, we went to Notre Dame- which was by far the coolest church I have ever seen. It was such a contrast to the Ancient style churches in Rome because it is Gothic architecture and has really cool stained glass windows! Next, we walked and walked to the Latin quarter, where all the students hang out, and Emmy and I bought BERETS. Hell yeah, I am in love with mine. Finally, after walking all day, we ate lunch at 4. We ate little sandwiches with ham, cheese, and salad and a plain sugar crepe- not the best crepe I had. To burn off our lunch, we walked around

more and went to the Eiffel Tower! I could not believe how huge it was! Ali, Shelby, Emmy, and our new friends, Abby and Elizabeth and I took so many pictures and ran all around the grounds! Then, although I was not even hungry, we went to our nice dinner, where we ate bread with goat cheese,  escargot, salmon and potatoes, and chocolate cake! It was such a cute little French restaurant and such a great experience. Then, we went back to the Tower and took some more pics, but this time from the top! We skipped the line because we were with the tour group and we saw it sparkle! We ended our night back at the hostel and met up with Emmy’s friend in the student part of town at a bar! It was cool and we got great nutella and banana crepes for a midnight snack.

Saturday:

Again, we got up early and we made our way to the Lourve. It was the biggest museum ever and it had so many nice pieces of work in it…. Including the MONA LISA. It was  surreal seeing her actual face, but I totally thought it would have been bigger. Also, right before we saw her, I asked Kevi if there was anything by Da Vinci, and then he just stopped and goes um. The mona lisa? How could I forget?! To end our tour, Ali, Emmy and I walked around the Napolean Apartments, and saw the crown jewels! So pretty. Wish I had money to buy that bow diamond. Hmm. What did we do next? We had some free time for lunch and we ate a Croque Madame- with an egg on top- and then ate macarons at Laduree- a great macaron place that is famous. I got chocolate, coconut, chocolate and coconut, lemon, coffee, and pistachio. I cannot even choose a favorite, but if I did, I would choose pistachio. Or the coconut one. Or the chocolate one. Or all of them. 

NEXT WAS THE BEST PART OF THE TRIP:

We hurried back to our hostel to meet our group and go on a bike tour of the city. I was so excited to go bike riding it was ridiculous. We bought gloves, some water, and a Kit-kat bar, put on our green safety vests, and headed out to ride! It was so fun! We saw the Effiel Tower, a bridge, the river and a lot of sights. I have never laughed so hard riding a bike. Then, we made our way to our boat cruise on the Siene- which was amazing too! It was freezing on the boat, but I had a blast talking to Ali, Shelby, Emmy, Abby and Elizabeth over the grossest wine ever. We saw even more of the sites and then rode back to drop off our bikes, and went home. We ended the night somewhat early at 1:30, because we had to wake up at 4 the next morning to catch  our plane.

Sunday:

My alarm woke me up at 4 and it sucked waking up and leaving Paris. The trip was too short! We made our way to Rome safely though!