So after all this sight seeing and shopping we went to a restaurant Sarah had been too a few years back. It was called Boullion Chartier and somehow they guy let us cut the entire line of people waiting to eat. So for dinner Danielle and I shared escargot and both got beef borgenion? Sarah and Danielle got a tomato salad that was actually just sliced tomatoes with some weird sauce .... We also had quite a bit of difficulty explaining we wanted tap water like no I don't want to pay for water- Europeans all drink the water that is served in glass bottles. No we're broke college kids give us the other water is pretty much what we want to say Everywhere we go.
Tuesday night we got to paris and got to the St. Christopher's hostel which was one of the nicest I've stayed in but sorta far from the center of everything! That night we went and saw the twinkling Eiffel Tower and it was breathtaking!
The next day was our extreme sightseeing day and we actually didn't stop. We started off with love lock bridge, which unfortunately is having locks cut off of every day because it damaging the bridge. Then to Notre Dame, Saint Chapelle, Luxembourg palace and the gardens. Then we made it our mission to get to Chipotle. I've never been so happy to over pay for food in my entire life so it was definitely worth the wait. Then it was off to the Eiffel Tower! Some how Carol convinced us to climb up to the top.... 670 stairs total. We all definitely felt every step the next day that's for sure but we rewarded our selves at the bottom with some delicious crepes. I had Nutella and banana and i barely tasted it I inhaled it so fast. Afterwards we went to the champs élysées and saw the arc de Triomphe and did some shopping. The best shopping purchase personally was my macaroons from Laduree . Such overpriced goodness but they never said Paris was going to be cheap.
So after all this sight seeing and shopping we went to a restaurant Sarah had been too a few years back. It was called Boullion Chartier and somehow the guy let us cut the entire line of people waiting to eat. So for dinner Danielle and I shared escargot and both got beef bourguignon. Sarah and Danielle got a tomato salad that was actually just sliced tomatoes with some weird sauce .... We also had quite a bit of difficulty explaining we wanted tap water like no I don't want to pay for water- Europeans all drink the water that is served in glass bottles. No we're broke college kids give us the other water is pretty much what we want to say Everywhere we go.
After our yummy dinner we all started getting ready for our night out! My friend Aubrey got us a table at a place called VIP room in Paris and gave us her promoters number. Needless to say I felt very a-lister when he met us at the door and brought us to the table. It was grey goose and Dom perignon all night free of charge. Well the trend continued and yet again Danielle and I were the last ones of our friends to leave at around 5 am. I don't get how Europeans do it. Ole miss bars close at 12 or 1 and here you can leave somewhere at 7 am and it's still packed like when do they sleep or recover? Still have yet to find out this answer, but maybe once I leave I'll learn their secret.
The next day everyone had nice headaches and were exhausted because we woke up early to go to Versailles.... Well the line C was closed. Yes completely closed. This is the main line that takes you from Paris to Versailles. So after asking 5 people how to get there and being underground for over an hour and a half we ran into the bus2alps people that were just as confused. Honestly it was abandon ship time so instead we tried our luck at the Louvre which was packed because it was raining! But we still got to see the famous Mona and wander through the endless collections. It's always art overload in there but still beautiful. After the educational Louvre visit some of us went back to the arc de triomphe and decided to take a pedicab ride to the Eiffel tour. Yes we're tourists and yes it was fun. But as I stepped in I thought to myself what if I die in a pedicab accident. Well don't worry we survived and when we were dropped off in front of the Eiffel Tower we saw something much more beautiful boarding a large bus. A European soccer team. They started waving probably because we were staring worse then any Italian man would so we watched them leave and it was crepe time. We all got two, a savory and a sweet. We really give the spring break diet a whole new meaning with our food overload. We constantly were reassuring ourselves though that all the walking we do counteracts it. And I mean when your walking 12 miles a day that has to count for something, right? So after soaking up the last bit of France we boarded our bus again for the last stop BARCELONA!!!!!!