Paris, Paris, Paris, what do you have in store for me?

Hello blog, it’s JANET, it’s almost 2am and I am feeling happy on champagne, cider and wine that me and three others from USAC drank at THE EIFFEL TOWER watching theglitter show, it was magic and soooo surreal.

Today. I woke up at 7am, got dressed and showered up and went BY METRO to La t Chapelle, god I love how things have signs and are marked clearly!! I loveee the metro, it’s so fast and took me everywhere today!!

Bought a museum pass for 32 bucks and each museum is about 8 bucks and I saw 5 of them today: St Chapelle, Le Concergerie (sp?), L’Opera National (de Garnier), Les Invalides, Le Musee Rodin.

St Chapelle was first, I couldn’t re-attach my jaw the whole time I was there <3 sooo thrilled…even though there were a lot of renovations going on so I couldn’t see it as it originally was, but amazing still.

Walked around l’ile de la cite, found notre dame, took pictures…there were at least 2000 people sitting in front of notre dame listening to a cardinal, I think it was a priest graduation of sorts, the police man I asked had no idea lol but he knew it wasn’t the pope like I originally thought. Either way, I couldn’t go into the cathedral.

Shopped a bit, bought my aunt her scarf  I was casually deciding if I should go to the c conciergerie and then I decided I should. Ran into the usac kids from pau outside it, sooo thrilled to see them. I had forgotten my phone at home like an idiot so I didn’t know if id see any of them today! But I did, and then they went to st chapelle while I saw le conciergerie…where people were held before being guillotined. Soooooo cool.

After that we walked down le pont neuf, or the new bridge (not nine) which is the longest and oldest bridge of paris made in part by henri iv. So neat! Then bre and I went to lunch for 8.50 euro I got a croquet monsieur (ham on a sandwich with melted cheese atop the sandwich), fries, a salad and chocolate ice cream with a little whipped cream. YUM.

Shopped around a bit with bre, saw a puppy store and of COURSE went in and looked at their cuteness, saw statues of crocodiles (weird), saw it all. Then, THENNNN I bought a mocha frappacino light tall from STARBUCKS!!! Soooo happy. Almost bought my mom a mug there but it looked strange sort of like le champ de mars was blood by la tour Eiffel, weird. I still am in search of the perfect gifty for my mom. It was her birthday two days ago you know 

After that, I took someone’s ticket from USAC who was off to see L’Ecole Militaire instead of the Opera and I sawwwww l’opera garnier and the interieur. It was the opera that inspired phantom and it was beyonddddd amazing. I saw a real ballet practicing in a window and took a million pictures. You cannot go down to the lake unfortunately but it does exist!

After that, we went to Les Invalides, or Napoleon’s Tomb. So cool, my mom would’VE loveeee all the history there.

From there, we walked to le musee rodin where the thinker, other sculptures and the gates of hell by rodin are and also the kiss. I love the kiss, I think it’s the most romantic sculpture I have ever seen. There was a French couple taking a picture of themselves kissing in front it, sooo romance.

Then I walked by myself for a bit and separated from the usac group and sat in a garden overlooking les invalides and just watched. Then I went home, took a power nap. Then I bought a baguette with ham and cheese and mayo at a boulangerie across my street and caught a metro to go to le quartier latin where the usac kids have their hotel. Chilled there for a bit, ate nutella gelato at a stand then walked to a bar with some people and watched the Ghana vs usa game at a bar  sadddd usa lost. But I had two glasses of wine for 7 euro and that made me happy.

Then four of us took a metro to la tour Eiffel and I saw it again, it still is surreal. I had champagne, cider and wine. We swindled!!! We got the price of the cider from 25 euro to 10 euro and the price of the champagne down from 20 euro to 5!! It was great, the wine Bre had bought earlier. It was sooo relaxing, surreal. Two of the girls I had never met before and were super nice to talk to.

Took a metro home and am off to bed now! More museums tomorrow for me but I will spend the whole day by myself!!