Saturday morning I got up early, had breakfast at the hostel in Brussel and caught the metro to Brussel-Midi. Found out that all the seat on the train I was hoping to take were gone, so instead I ended up going to Lille, France and catching a train from there to Paris. Surprisingly, I was only two hours later arriving in Paris than planned. Met up with Cameron and Elizabeth (!) and we set off to conquer Paris! This'll be the abbriviated version, if you want all my pictures I took you can find them here. Seriously, it's a pretty amazing album, so GO LOOK AT THEM AND TELL ME HOW AWESOME IT IS.
So first we went to Notre Dame which was awesome, though packed with people.
We went inside and walked around. Talk about some impressive architecture and stained glass. We then found the underground museum about the history of Norte Dame and toured it for a bit. At this point, we were hungry so we walked around and found an awesome alley packed with people and shops and yummy food carts
Then we decided to go visit the Eiffel Tower. So cool.
Then we went to Sacre Coeur, which was probably my favorite part place in Paris that I saw. It's on one of the high points in the city and looks out over Paris' expanse of white, ancient buildings. The church located there is fairly recent (built in the late 1800's) and is absolutely beautiful. The inside is so astoundingly immense and serene- well except for the really christian-y parts that made me a little annoyed.
So then we walked down to the Moulin Rouge which was in a rather red-light sort of district. Seriously, 2 out of 3 shops were sex shops. It was rather impressive that so many could survive so closely together. We'd be walking FOREVER it seems like at this point, so we decided to get some dinner at an India place C&E found when they arrived. The food was great (and pricey). We were hoing to catch the light show on the Eiffel Tower that happens on the hour from 10pm-1am, but we missed the 11pm and were too exhausted to wait/didn't want to miss the last metro runs. Thus, we called it a night.
Next morning I woke up and meet E&C at the Lourve at 11am. We stayed until closing- something like six hours- wandering around. I have to say it, the Mona Lisa was unimpressive. But besides that I really enjoyed seeing all the art. My favorite part was the sculpture garden.
We went back to the alley around Notre Dame for dinner becasue it was 'cheap' and had a gyro. Then we wandered around and lo and behold, we found an all ENGLISH used bookstore! It was amazing!!!!
Then we sat down in a local bar, had a happy hour beer and then went to see the Eiffel Tower do it's light show.
It was amazing and magical and just... awesome. It was a great way to end a perfect weekend in Paris with good friends.
The trip home on Monday was less happy, and filled with my usual dum blunders, but I'm not going to dwell on it. I got home and that's what counts! I mean, hello, I got to see friends and Paris all in one weekend, it was marvelous. Though it did make me realize I miss you all so much.
I like the picture with the thinking statue, but it would be more convincing if you both had your cocks out. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen Ratatouie? I doubt you have, seeing as it's a Disney cartoon, but it takes place in Paris and the pic of everything from the highest point makes me think of it. Sometimes I think seeing someone's impression of a city is just as interesting as seeing the city itself :)
Okay. Maybe that's taking it a bit far. I'm glad you had an amazing time there! I miss you SO much, babe.
ewewood miss me. i agree with paula on the cocks out thing.
ReplyDeleteFun fact: That used bookstore is in the movie Julie & Julia!
ReplyDeleteNO WAY! That's freaking awesome.
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