Paris

Paris! Where to begin?

Well when we were traveling to Paris our train ticket had us stopping in Metz France to switch trains to get the rest of the way to Paris. When we tried to get onto our connecting train, we had an awkward encounter with a few French people that couldn't speak english that were in our seats. As it turns out when we bought all of our train tickets for the weekends in Luxembourg the person messed up the dates, our tickets were for the previous weekend. We had to get off the train. We could not exchange our tickets because the date had already passed. We had to buy new tickets to get the rest of the way to Paris, and then back home. The next train wasn't for 2 hours. Needless to say we got to Paris much much later than expected, and had to leave a lot earlier than expected (7am Sunday morning). So while that totally sucked a lot and was extremely expensive...The rest of the trip was absolutely amazing!

We left our hostel for the Eifel Tower, which was a long journey through the metro system, and cracked open a bottle of wine. When we were in the city we came accross a bergade of rollerbladers. There were like 1000! They were looping the streets around the Eiffel Tower. Then we finally saw it! It was already lit up, and magnificent! It made the entire trip worth it to see the tower! We walked around here for a while and took lots of pictures. There were soo many souviner venders selling mini towers, they were all exactly the same. It was fun to haggle with them though! On our way back to the metro, which closes at 1am (and it was already 12:10!) we grabbed some Crepes from street vendors. IT was the most delicious treat I've ever had! And I don't think I had eaten since probably 2pm... If you ever get the chance definitely definitely get crepes from a vendor in Paris! So then we were trying to catch the metro. We ended up running throught the tunnels when we had to switch to a different line. We thought we had missed the last one, but we stayed for a few minutes to see. Sure enough there was one more! We made it back to our hostel :D and then passed out!

Saturday:
We got up early in order to get to as many parts of the city as possible in this short amount of time. First we went to the Notre Dame Cathedral area and walked around a little. We found a pasterie shop. Everything looked absolutely delicious! I got a Raisen Swirl, yum! Everyone else got Crossiant type pastries. The we walked over to where our boat tour would begin. It was very cold. On the boat tour we went past Notre Dame, The National Library of France, Hotel de Ville, La Congrion, The Institute of France, Le Musee d'Orsay, Le Louve, Le Grand Palais, Les Invalides, Le Palais de Chaillot, and Lat Tour Eiffel. We were supposed to see the statue of liberty's sister, but I did not see it.

After the boat tour we traveled to see the Moulin Rouge Theater, and the surrounding area. We also went to the Erotic Mueseum for our class projects. We went to a fabulous street vendor and got baguett sandwiches! YUM! After walking around here for a little while we headed to the Arc De Triumph, which was created during the time of Napoleon to remember the soldiers lost during the war. Here we saw an awesome famous street performer that was breakdancing. Then we went to the shops in this area, champs elyese, which were extremely nice places that none of us could possibly afford haha maybe some day though? Then we went to see Jim Morrisons grave in a famous cemetary for the best writers in the world. Then we went to the Louve to walk around, becaue it was hard to see from the boat tour. We wend to a restaurant for dinner in this area, it was called the Traditional French Restaurant, it was delicious! We shared a bottle of wine, and they gave us water and bread. Generally in Europe water is very expensive an they charge for bread. Needless to say we were very excited to see the bill in which they didn't charge for water or bread, and only for 1 glass of wine rather than a whole bottle! That was our lucky break for the trip!

After dinner we headed over to the Eiffel Tower to hang out. In line we got offered umbrellas about a million times by the souvenier vendors haha. We went up to the top in the elevator! IT was AMAZING! It was also very very cold, windy, and rainy... Afterwards we went to our favorite crepe vendor and went back to our hostel because we were absolutely freeezing! The crepes were again the best I've ever had, nuetella, caramel, and banana, yummmmy!

Sunday:
We woke up at 6:45, and left our hostel at 7am to catch the metro to the train station because our new train ticket specified leaving at 8:39am, womp! We were back to Mondorf-les-Bains by 12:45pm. And then it was NAPTIME!

After waking up from my nap, Eugene and I went to an upscale chineese food restaurant in town. It was very good. They were so nice, they personally greeted everyone that came in and then said by as they left, and sometimes sat down at tables after the meal was finished to chat. They also gave complimentary after lunch drink of Orange Liquor / Champagne? It was freaking delicious! Then I napped some more.