So I'm not sure what we were thinking booking our flight to take off at 6am and l
and in Paris at 7:55, but thats what we did. The cab sucked because we were driving down the street and there were still all these people out partying and stuff....it was actually kinda funny. When we got to the airport the cab driver was like that will be 38 euros. Usually it is about 30, so Rosie, who was in our cab and can speak spanish was like no, why. And he went into this big thing about thats just how the prices are and was being a jerk so we just payed him and left. But thats so ridiculous. We take cabs in the middle of the night every other weekend. The flight there I slept obviously and then we met one of Denise's friends at the airport. Denise is just a girl on our trip and she has a friend who lives in Paris who visited us in Barcelona, and she is so sweet. She helped us figure out how to get to the hostel and we left to go drop off our stuff. We had to ride a train from the airport and then get on a metro and then walk another 10 minutes so it was quite a trek. On the train we noticed that we were the only people in the whole car talking at all. We had been warned that the French people don't talk and man, its true. They are silent, and when they talk its in a whisper. Also, the train was going so painfully slow. At one
point in the ride anthony was like, guys, i think i just saw a rabbit hop past us, obviously kidding but it was hilarious because it felt like that could happen any second. When we got to the hostel, we dropped off our stuff and looked at the pamphlets they had about Paris to figure out what we wanted to do on our first day. They had this flier about a free tour and it sounded cool because it would take us by all these places that we wanted to walk by and hear about but not necessarily go in to. The tour started at one thirty so we had some time to kill before it started so we just started walking in search of some coffee and a little something for lunch. We settled on this little cafe looking place and decided to just get a drink there and find somewhere else for actual food. Good decision because when the check came we found out that the tiny
cappuccinos that we had were 4.50 each. We could not believe how expensive it was. For food we ended up just going right next door to a little backery/pastry place. In France they are every other door it seems like, but I love it because they have all this fresh bread, a million different types of pastries, tarts and desserts and it was really good but different than i was expecting. It had mushrooms and ham...aren't you proud of me, i branched out with the mushrooms...and it was like a big pie and you just got a pie piece and it was cold. I enjoyed it though. From there we walked over the the latin quarter of town where our tour started. It was a really long walk but it was cool because on the way we got to see a lot of the city. Paris is so beautiful to just walk
around in. The buildings are all so old and gorgeous and also the way the streets are laid out is really cool. They are on this plan where the major streets come out from the Arc de Triumph in a radial pattern and they all end and frame a view of an important building in the city. So while you are walking down the streets, you will come to a cross street and if you look down it, there is a cool building being framed at the end. Along the way, we passed two streets that did this, and one of them was framing the Eiffel tower so of course we had to stop and take pictures! that all look delicious, and then also quiche and other little food items. I ended up getting quiche The meeting place for the tour was a place called St. Michel Place which was really cool. It was this
big fountain in the middle of the streets with a statue in the middle. When the tour started, the first thing our guide told us about was the fountain and it actually has a really cool story. Th Paris and made it his western europe hub and operated from that building. On the outside there are all these indentions and holes in the stone from when the Parisians fought back and reclaimed the city four years later. We continued on our tour and walked past the Louvre, the church where Tony Parker and Eva got married, this courtyard with cool fountains that had these huge metal balls everywhere, and then we broke for lunch. After lunch we continued on the tour to the Louvre gardens, a plaza with a huge obelisk where Marie Antoinette and Henry the 16th got
beheaded, the arc de triomphe, and finished by these two pretty, old buildings that are now museums. The tour was definitely worth it and good to get some history behind some of the things in Paris. After the tour, a group of us walked to a mall to get some gloves because it was so freezing outside. The walk to the mall was more like a hike because it was so far away, but ite statue is of the Angel Michel sending/taking Satan to hell, so it represents the battle between good and evil and good being victorious. Then we walked across the bridge and got a glimpse of Notre Dame, but didn't actually go to it. Also we stopped at this building that is currently some government building. Our guide told us that during Hitler's move across Europe, he captured
was worth it because i bought gloves and tights to wear under my jeans and it made me much warmer. Then, we walked back over to the arc de triomphe to get a closer, better view of it. From there we rode the metro over to the Louvre because we found out on the tour that every Friday night after 6 if you are under 26 you get in for free. We definitely wanted to that because it is expensive to get it and also it is huge so it doesnt make sense to pay that much unless you are going to spend a lot time doing the whole museum and we just wanted to see a couple of things. So we went and saw the Mona Lisa and the Nike statue. It was really cool and it is one of those things you just have to do while in Paris. Also, the inside of the Louvre is just really pretty because it is an old palace. We went in one room that had all these jewels and diamonds and crowns from past royalty that was pretty neat to. After the Louvre we were planning on getting dinner because it was about 10 but we got nervous about loosing our spot at the hostel because we still hadn't checked in, so we just went back to check in and then eat around there afterwards. By the time we were done checking in, it was 11:20 and w
e weren't sure if anything would still be open. The guy at the front desk said there were a few things, including a pizza hut that would be open but only until 11:30. We rushed out to make it on time and when we got to pizza hut they were closed, along with every other place to get food. We ended up going to this little "grocery store" but more like a gas station selection without gas. All of us got frozen cheeseburgers and took them back to the hostel and microwaved them. It was funny because paris has amazing food and our first dinner we ate microwaved burgers that im pretty sure weren't even real meat, and we stole some ketchup out of the hostel refrigerator to make it taste decent. After dinner we went to our room which was nice because the four of
us had our own room without any strangers. We had a sink and mirror in our room and then the there were two toilets down the hall and one shower across the hall all for a whole floor to share. I decided to take a shower first which was a bad idea. I got in the shower and pushed the knob (there were no handles for temperature) and it was ICE cold. I mean ICE. I jumped out because it was so cold and just stood there shivering. I just washed my hair by standing there and sticking my head in the water and eventually it got warm but it took forever. I warned everybody else so they didn't have such a traumatic experience. Then we all went to bed. the first pic is of the good vs. evil fountain, the second is of notre dame from kinda far away, the
third is just a picture of the river going through a part of the city, the forth is of me at the Louvre of course this is only a portion because it is huge, and the last is of the obelisk where the guillotine used to be. The 6th pic is of Mona Lisa, and then is the Nike statue. next is just a random ceiling of a room in the Louvre and then the Louvre at night. Last is us girls with our amazing cheeseburgers!
and in Paris at 7:55, but thats what we did. The cab sucked because we were driving down the street and there were still all these people out partying and stuff....it was actually kinda funny. When we got to the airport the cab driver was like that will be 38 euros. Usually it is about 30, so Rosie, who was in our cab and can speak spanish was like no, why. And he went into this big thing about thats just how the prices are and was being a jerk so we just payed him and left. But thats so ridiculous. We take cabs in the middle of the night every other weekend. The flight there I slept obviously and then we met one of Denise's friends at the airport. Denise is just a girl on our trip and she has a friend who lives in Paris who visited us in Barcelona, and she is so sweet. She helped us figure out how to get to the hostel and we left to go drop off our stuff. We had to ride a train from the airport and then get on a metro and then walk another 10 minutes so it was quite a trek. On the train we noticed that we were the only people in the whole car talking at all. We had been warned that the French people don't talk and man, its true. They are silent, and when they talk its in a whisper. Also, the train was going so painfully slow. At one
point in the ride anthony was like, guys, i think i just saw a rabbit hop past us, obviously kidding but it was hilarious because it felt like that could happen any second. When we got to the hostel, we dropped off our stuff and looked at the pamphlets they had about Paris to figure out what we wanted to do on our first day. They had this flier about a free tour and it sounded cool because it would take us by all these places that we wanted to walk by and hear about but not necessarily go in to. The tour started at one thirty so we had some time to kill before it started so we just started walking in search of some coffee and a little something for lunch. We settled on this little cafe looking place and decided to just get a drink there and find somewhere else for actual food. Good decision because when the check came we found out that the tiny
cappuccinos that we had were 4.50 each. We could not believe how expensive it was. For food we ended up just going right next door to a little backery/pastry place. In France they are every other door it seems like, but I love it because they have all this fresh bread, a million different types of pastries, tarts and desserts and it was really good but different than i was expecting. It had mushrooms and ham...aren't you proud of me, i branched out with the mushrooms...and it was like a big pie and you just got a pie piece and it was cold. I enjoyed it though. From there we walked over the the latin quarter of town where our tour started. It was a really long walk but it was cool because on the way we got to see a lot of the city. Paris is so beautiful to just walk
around in. The buildings are all so old and gorgeous and also the way the streets are laid out is really cool. They are on this plan where the major streets come out from the Arc de Triumph in a radial pattern and they all end and frame a view of an important building in the city. So while you are walking down the streets, you will come to a cross street and if you look down it, there is a cool building being framed at the end. Along the way, we passed two streets that did this, and one of them was framing the Eiffel tower so of course we had to stop and take pictures! that all look delicious, and then also quiche and other little food items. I ended up getting quiche The meeting place for the tour was a place called St. Michel Place which was really cool. It was this
big fountain in the middle of the streets with a statue in the middle. When the tour started, the first thing our guide told us about was the fountain and it actually has a really cool story. Th Paris and made it his western europe hub and operated from that building. On the outside there are all these indentions and holes in the stone from when the Parisians fought back and reclaimed the city four years later. We continued on our tour and walked past the Louvre, the church where Tony Parker and Eva got married, this courtyard with cool fountains that had these huge metal balls everywhere, and then we broke for lunch. After lunch we continued on the tour to the Louvre gardens, a plaza with a huge obelisk where Marie Antoinette and Henry the 16th got
beheaded, the arc de triomphe, and finished by these two pretty, old buildings that are now museums. The tour was definitely worth it and good to get some history behind some of the things in Paris. After the tour, a group of us walked to a mall to get some gloves because it was so freezing outside. The walk to the mall was more like a hike because it was so far away, but ite statue is of the Angel Michel sending/taking Satan to hell, so it represents the battle between good and evil and good being victorious. Then we walked across the bridge and got a glimpse of Notre Dame, but didn't actually go to it. Also we stopped at this building that is currently some government building. Our guide told us that during Hitler's move across Europe, he captured
was worth it because i bought gloves and tights to wear under my jeans and it made me much warmer. Then, we walked back over to the arc de triomphe to get a closer, better view of it. From there we rode the metro over to the Louvre because we found out on the tour that every Friday night after 6 if you are under 26 you get in for free. We definitely wanted to that because it is expensive to get it and also it is huge so it doesnt make sense to pay that much unless you are going to spend a lot time doing the whole museum and we just wanted to see a couple of things. So we went and saw the Mona Lisa and the Nike statue. It was really cool and it is one of those things you just have to do while in Paris. Also, the inside of the Louvre is just really pretty because it is an old palace. We went in one room that had all these jewels and diamonds and crowns from past royalty that was pretty neat to. After the Louvre we were planning on getting dinner because it was about 10 but we got nervous about loosing our spot at the hostel because we still hadn't checked in, so we just went back to check in and then eat around there afterwards. By the time we were done checking in, it was 11:20 and w
e weren't sure if anything would still be open. The guy at the front desk said there were a few things, including a pizza hut that would be open but only until 11:30. We rushed out to make it on time and when we got to pizza hut they were closed, along with every other place to get food. We ended up going to this little "grocery store" but more like a gas station selection without gas. All of us got frozen cheeseburgers and took them back to the hostel and microwaved them. It was funny because paris has amazing food and our first dinner we ate microwaved burgers that im pretty sure weren't even real meat, and we stole some ketchup out of the hostel refrigerator to make it taste decent. After dinner we went to our room which was nice because the four of 
us had our own room without any strangers. We had a sink and mirror in our room and then the there were two toilets down the hall and one shower across the hall all for a whole floor to share. I decided to take a shower first which was a bad idea. I got in the shower and pushed the knob (there were no handles for temperature) and it was ICE cold. I mean ICE. I jumped out because it was so cold and just stood there shivering. I just washed my hair by standing there and sticking my head in the water and eventually it got warm but it took forever. I warned everybody else so they didn't have such a traumatic experience. Then we all went to bed. the first pic is of the good vs. evil fountain, the second is of notre dame from kinda far away, the
third is just a picture of the river going through a part of the city, the forth is of me at the Louvre of course this is only a portion because it is huge, and the last is of the obelisk where the guillotine used to be. The 6th pic is of Mona Lisa, and then is the Nike statue. next is just a random ceiling of a room in the Louvre and then the Louvre at night. Last is us girls with our amazing cheeseburgers!
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