Paris was AMAZING!!!! Everything is beautiful and so cool to see! I already want to go back... I will tell you step but step everything we did in the short weekend we were there.
We left bright and early at 6am on Friday and got on a coach (bus) and headed to the chunnel. Our bus got onto the train that then went under the sea to France! It was so crazy! We arrived in Paris around 5pm (a very long journey!) and checked into the hotel. We had an hour to get ready for our river cruise and Lindsay, Chelsea, and I planned on going to dinner afterwards.
We went on our river cruise which was pretty cool. It was nice to see the major sites of Paris at night but it was difficult to see and get good pictures since it was covered in this clear plastic. We didn't get a seat actually outside so that was kind of a bummer. At the end of the cruise, we got back to the Eiffel Tower, and it was all lit up! It is lit up after sundown and every hour, it sparkles!! Right when we got back, it started to sparkle! I got a video of it- it was gorgeous!
Then we were really hungry and decided to find a place near the Eiffel Tower to eat at. Just Chelsea, Lindsay, and I went to this cute restaurant, which was a little pricey but so good! I tried some of Lindsay's escargot, which was pretty good! I had duck, which was amazing and creme brulee for dessert. We also had some wine with our meal- had to while in Paris. I try so hard to like wine, and I just can't! We were really tired after our 3 hour dinner and it was already 11:30 so we went home. We got a little lost along the way, but we asked some people and eventually got back to our hotel and to bed!
The next day, Saturday, was another early start with breakfast at 8am. We left the hotel at 9am to go to the Eiffel Tower, which was only a 15-20 minute walk from our hotel. We went up the Eiffel Tower all the way to the top. It was probably the coolest thing I have ever gotten to do!! It was a little cloudy but still a gorgeous view of the city!
After that, at noon, we got back on our bus and took a tour of the city. We saw Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge, Champs Elysees, L'arc de Tromphe, the Louvre, and Notre Dame. We stopped at Notre Dame and had time to go in and look around. It was so beautiful! Then we got dropped off at the Louvre for the day. We went inside and saw lots of paintings and sculptures, including the Mona Lisa! It was really interesting to see all the old paintings housed there.
It started raining right before we left the Louvre and we got on the Metro to go back to our hotel. We got some champagne on the way home for later, then went to our rooms to get of our wet clothes. We went to dinner at a cafe around the corner from our hotel. I had a tomato and mozzarella starter drizzled with balsamic and pesto; beef, salad, and fries for my main course; then creme brulee with pistachio for dessert. It was delicious! After dinner, we went back to our hotel and put on some warmer clothes and headed to the Eiffel Tower to hang out and drink champagne! It was a little rainy and cold but we were sitting and looking at the Eiffel Tower and it can't get much better than that! We went back to the hotel a couple of hours after we got there because we lost an hour due to daylight savings time in Europe. We got back to the hotel and were so tired we fell asleep pretty quickly.
On Sunday, we had breakfast at 8am again and left the hotel at 9 to head to Versailles. Lindsay, Chelsea, Madison, and I paid to get into the Palace of Versailles to see the palace, gardens, and Marie-Antoinette's Estate. Madison left after we saw the gardens to visit the nearby market while Chels, Linds, and I went to Marie-Antoinette's Estate. Everything was so old and pretty! I have pictures of everything up on facebook already so take a look! After Versailles, we headed back onto the bus to come back to England.
We had to go through customs to get back into England, but not when we went into France. Our bus driver just said we were all U.K. students going on a trip to Paris and they just let us in! It was strange!
We got back around 7:30pm and it was still light outside because of daylight savings time! I love when it stays light out later!
So we didn't really have a lot of free time in Paris to go shopping or anything, but it was an amazing trip and I had a blast! I am super excited to keep traveling! I just have this week of school then 3 weeks of Easter (Spring) Break! We head to Dublin on Friday and I am super pumped for that!
I will let you all know how my experience with the Irish goes!
Au Revoir!
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