our trip started pretty early on friday (5:45 am) when we took the bus to the airport, and then we got in to the orly airport outside of paris around 10-ish or so and then into paris itself by 11. laura and i waited at the bus stop for a bit until josh, her friend studying in paris, and two other friends came to pick us up. we were immediately greeted with chocolate-filled croissants from josh, which were AMAZING!!!
we walked around for a bit, dropped our stuff off at the hotel room, got some crepes, then headed to the pantheon, where we saw a bunch of tombs in the crypt and saw this huge contraption that proves the world rotates on an axis. seth called us and said he had arrived to the city, so we went and met him (along the way picking up some more authentic parisian pastries) and headed to the eiffel tower, which was even more AMAZING than i thought. i think i literally took like, a million pictures of it.
since josh knows everything there is to know about paris (because he actually wants to be a tour guide) he took us to a bunch of cool sites. for dinner we went to a restaurant called hippopotamus, or something similar, and afterward we walked around and saw the arc de triumph and some other sites before heading back to the hotel.
on saturday morning, we headed to the louvre and conquered it in three hours. it was so huge it was overwhelming at first to decide where to begin, but after we got started things went relatively smoothly. we saw napoleon's apartment (since he lived in the louvre before it was made into a museum), the mona lisa of course, venus de milo, winged victory, and a lotta lotta more. we encountered our first rude french person in the cafe inside the louvre, who told us we had to ask before we took sugar and spoons that were clearly on the counter for people to take.
after the louvre, we met up with callie, who came in from the u.s. to see us!!!, and josh showed us around some more. we headed up to the artist's quarter and the basilica before we had dinner at the cool little fondu place near moulin rouge. the atmosphere was literally amazing because the place was just this little hole in the wall, and the waiters just brought out food and you didn't get to order. it was literally hilarious because this guy brought out appetizers and then cheese and potatoes that we dipped in this cheese fondu. and then he brought out this bowl of meat that looked really really rare, and we asked josh if we were supposed to eat this, and he's like, i guess. so then we did, and after a couple pieces the waiter came back with a bowl of oil or water or something and a lighter to light this burner on the table, and when josh asked the waiter if that was to cook the meat, the guy was like, in french, 'duh stupid, would you eat it otherwise???'
so after dinner we saw moulin rouge and then headed back to our hotel. sunday morning we headed to the orsy museum that had more impressionistic artwork, and then by early afternoon it was time to head back to sevilla.
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Nice long entry there. I liked the part about the food where you guys ate half the world on Friday.
But sadly, you did not include the story of the artist's corner and all the cool paintings, as well as Callie on the "binoculars" aka turrets, haha.
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