Bonjour!
Okay before I tell you about Paris, you have to understand my love for Paris, France. I always wanted to take French, that was even my best language in Intro to languages class. My favorite pasttime is watching french movies. My favorite movie of all time is Moulin Rouge. I have multiple french bands/singers on my ipod. Johnny Depp lives in France. I have posters of the Moulin Rouge, and the Eiffel tower in my room. Paris is truly my ultimate favorite city, and after living it, it still is.
Once we arrived to France immediately we headed towards the Eiffel tower, which was breathtaking. I almost cried, no joke, I have always dreamt of seeing its beauty and finally it happened. Then I ate a cheese sandwhich, Heather ate a huge hot dog and Chenoa had churros as we all stared at what we were going to climb. First off the line was longer and the cost was higher for riding the elevator to the top so us b.a.s. decided to walk it. There were a lot of stairs. I had to put my head between my knees to make the black spots go away. But the view was amazing! Once we headed down our next destination was the catacombs, but sadly we headed in the wrong direction.. this is when we bought our map.
The louvre was the closest so we decided to give it a little check up. We decided to actually see the museum the next day though so then we knew our hostel was far away so we began our hike. Blue Planet Hostel was two thumbs up.... no not at all. We get there and the guy at the front desk ignored us as he chatted on his phone. Then told us we had to buy sheets if we didnt have our own.. and just to knock on the door because someone was already there. What? Our three person room turned to six. Seriously I have watched enough horror movies to not be ok with this place. Then the next morning free breakfast consisted of "chuckie Cheese" coins to put in the vending machines. We are still laughing about this.
So after we ditched that lovely hostel we went to give Quasimoto a hello at the Notre Dame. I loved all of the gargoyles, seriously Gothic cathedrals are probably my most favorite buildings. We arrived too early to climb to the top so I told old Quasi I'd meet him another day. Then Chenoa and Heather had to go to the bathroom, so we learned that France have the coolest free, public Don Johns that clean themselves after every use. Next we saw the Louvre which was humongous.... I believe biggie now that the king used to let deer loose in the Louvre and then hunt them with his dogs.. that place was muy grande. Heather was afraid shed never find us after we all accidentally split up. But I got to see the Mona Lisa, which was smaller than I thought. A lot of Goya, some egyptian, asian and african exhibits and then I was donnee.
The catacombs were supposed to be next.. but no, they closed right as I got there. I was soooo sad. But after sitting in a cafe for two hours we decided to take a sloooow hike to the Moulin Rouge. We headed out and shopped for a bit and ate at a italian restaurant. We made a huge circle but finally got to the moulin rouge which is still showing nudey shows, I had no idea! But the shows were like 160 euros.. when I become a can-can dancer I'll let ya'll in for free. So we had some time to kill since we refused to go to another hostel. We sat in a McDonalds that played really raunchy music videos. Then I got to experience the life of a hobo as we waited for the bus.
I definately did not want to leave the lovely Paris but I was completely exhausted when I got home. (my spanish home of course)
FOTOS
Bises
