Hope everyone had a good and safe spring break! Me and my best friend took a trip to Paris with our school. It was so much fun and I want to share all of the fun things that we did. (Also I just turned 18 the Saturday we got back so that's exciting!). So the first day, (which was super long because we had an overnight flight and got to Charles de Gualle airport at 7 in the morning) we went to the Champs Elysees and ate lunch, shopped and go to the Arc de Triomphe. Then we headed for a walking tour near Notre Dame, the gardens around behind Notre Dame and saw more interesting monuments around Paris. One of my favorite things coming into Paris on the river Seine was seeing the smaller Lady Liberty that they have that faces the one we have in New York. It really showed the friendship and support that we have for each other. The next day we went to the Palace of Versailles, which was so beautiful, we spend basically the whole day there because there was so much to look at. My favorite was the garden behind it because it was so huge and so thought out. That night we went to Montparnese which is the tallest building in Paris and has #thebestviewofParis.
The next day we went to the Louvre which wasn't actually my favorite because there was so much to see and I'm not a big fan of just looking at paintings. We did see the Mona Lisa, which wasn't as big as I thought and its behind glass and a rope so you can't get behind it. After the Louvre, we went to the Opera district and visited the Perfume museum and learned about how perfume is made and the differences. It was actually more interesting than you might think, it's just hard to focus when you've been walking for a while and my legs hurt, after the museum we went shopping for a while then headed for Notre Dame. This time we actually got to go inside and see how gorgeous it really is. Pictures can't even describe how beautiful it is. One of my favorite things that we did the next day was, the Catacombs. For the people who don't know what that is, when the Plague hit Paris they ran out of room to bury bodies, so they built underground tombs where they take the bones of the bodies and build them. It was really creepy like in a horror movie but it was so cool to see it too. We headed to Monmartre which was a basilica(not a church) and had another gorgeous view of Paris, there we did more shopping and got bombarded by the guys trying to trick you into paying them after tying a string on your finger. That night we went to la Tour Effiel, it is low season there so we couldn't take the stairs up(I probably wouldn't have made it up anyway) but we went all the way to the top level and I don't think I have ever felt so happy to be that high up. Trying to take pictures from my iPhone couldn't capture how gorgeous Paris is at night.
This next day was rough. My legs felt like jello but we got to go to three museum's Musee d'Orsay, Musee de Roubin and Musee de l'Armee Invalides. They had different things to offer; Musee d'Orsay had mostly paintings but my favorite was the huge clock that not many people new about that you could walk behind to get to the different levels. Musee de Roubin had sculptures and the last one was my favorite because it was an old military hospital and it had the tomb of Napoleon.
Our last day in Paris we went to Claud-Monet's house and saw the gardens. I wished my mom was with me on the trip because I know how much she loves flowers and stuff like that. So I took a whole bunch of pictures of the prettiest flowers I could find. Then for the last have of the day we had to ourselves to go shopping...my last day kind of sucked because I was so sick and ended up throwing up at dinner which was not fun.
I'm so happy to have had this experience and I hope to continue to go to different places and learn about more cultures!
