After spring break we had an easy school week just getting back into everything and then that Friday it was time to visit Paris. Makenzie and I left our apartment around 330 in the morning in order to catch the bus to bring us to the Pisa Airport. On the airplane going there I had the luxury of sitting in the middle of a four year old boy and Makenzie was next to the window on my other side. Every single time I would fall asleep on the plane my head would lean forward a little bit, and every single time the little boy would push me back into my seat because he could not see out the window. On top of that, he kept pounding on the armrests to entertain himself. I have never had such an awful plane ride in my life. Once we landed, we had to take another bus just to get to Paris. It is the only way to actually get there from the airport. Once we finally got to our hostel we set our stuff down and made our way straight to the Eiffel Tower. I was not expecting it to be that breathtaking. We spent the rest of the night just wandering around Paris and seeing what the city had to offer us.
Paris actually reminds me a lot of London except that they speak French and have a few more parks. The parks in Paris are just like what you imagine when you think of Paris, absolutely gorgeous. When we went back to our hostel to get some sleep, we walked in our room and discovered that one of the girls we had met on spring break was staying in the same room with us! It is such a small world. The next morning we went on a free walking tour of Paris that the hostel sets up. One of the funniest things I learned on the tour was that there is a woman from California that came to Paris and absolutely fell in love with the Eiffel Tower and somehow was able to legally marry it. Then a few years later she was touring around in Italy and went to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. She ended up falling even more in love with the Leaning Tower and divorced the Eiffel Tower to marry the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After the tour we all went out to lunch/dinner where I got to try duck and escargot. It was actually really good and I am so happy that I tried something new.
The next day we decided that we would just walk around Paris and do our own thing. We got to buy locks as a joke and put them on the bridge where you "lock your love" and throw the key into the river. It is from a scene in "Sex and the City." Then we went to the Notre Dame Cathedral to see the inside and climb to the top. You could see everything from the top. We even got to go inside the bell tower to see what they look like. It was really cool to get to see the gargoyles that decorate the Cathedral as well. Then we rented some bikes and just rode around the city and explored. By the end of the day we were so exhausted. We ended up going to the movies because they had them in English. We saw the most awful movie, I cannot even remember the name of it. I couldn't even tell you what it was about because I ended up falling asleep for most of it.
On our last day in Paris we realized that we never went inside the Louvre or climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower so that was the first thing on our list of things to do. The view from the top of the Eiffel Tower was amazing. It was totally worth the hour and a half line in order to start walking the stairs. We rushed over to the Louvre right after in order to see the Mona Lisa by Da Vinci. Many people say that it is a lot smaller than they expected it to be, but I did not think that at all. I was sort of expecting it to be the size that it was. It was cool to sway my body back and forth to see her staring at me. We got to see the Venus de Milo which was stunning! The invisible pyramids that are in the courtyard of the Louvre were also really cool to see. Then it was time to run off to another tour that we had signed up for. On the tour we got to see the homes of Picasso and Van Gogh and hear the stories about how they became famous. After the tour we had to run off and catch a tube to the bus for our plane back to Pisa. It was a long and exhausting day of traveling and did not get back to Florence until about 2 am, but we made it back safely which is all that matters. Paris was a fantastic place to visit and I think everyone should go and experience it there at least once in their life.
The next day we decided that we would just walk around Paris and do our own thing. We got to buy locks as a joke and put them on the bridge where you "lock your love" and throw the key into the river. It is from a scene in "Sex and the City." Then we went to the Notre Dame Cathedral to see the inside and climb to the top. You could see everything from the top. We even got to go inside the bell tower to see what they look like. It was really cool to get to see the gargoyles that decorate the Cathedral as well. Then we rented some bikes and just rode around the city and explored. By the end of the day we were so exhausted. We ended up going to the movies because they had them in English. We saw the most awful movie, I cannot even remember the name of it. I couldn't even tell you what it was about because I ended up falling asleep for most of it.
On our last day in Paris we realized that we never went inside the Louvre or climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower so that was the first thing on our list of things to do. The view from the top of the Eiffel Tower was amazing. It was totally worth the hour and a half line in order to start walking the stairs. We rushed over to the Louvre right after in order to see the Mona Lisa by Da Vinci. Many people say that it is a lot smaller than they expected it to be, but I did not think that at all. I was sort of expecting it to be the size that it was. It was cool to sway my body back and forth to see her staring at me. We got to see the Venus de Milo which was stunning! The invisible pyramids that are in the courtyard of the Louvre were also really cool to see. Then it was time to run off to another tour that we had signed up for. On the tour we got to see the homes of Picasso and Van Gogh and hear the stories about how they became famous. After the tour we had to run off and catch a tube to the bus for our plane back to Pisa. It was a long and exhausting day of traveling and did not get back to Florence until about 2 am, but we made it back safely which is all that matters. Paris was a fantastic place to visit and I think everyone should go and experience it there at least once in their life.
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