Forget Paris...

…..uh I don’t think so…Paris was soooo much fun. We left at 4:30am Saturday morning May 2nd and headed for King's Cross station. (We couldn't take the tube because it wasn't open yet, so we had to walk.) The train ride there was about 2 hours and I slept most of the time. When we got there, we went to our hotel and dropped off our luggage and left because check in time wasn’t until 4pm. We went looking for the Eiffel Tower and when we were walking Jessica noticed people taking pictures in our direction. Jessica and I turned around and there it was, the Eiffel Tower. We yelled for the other girls, who were walking ahead of us, and when they turned around they had this look of amazement on their faces. So we started walking back in the other direction. We walked towards the tower and started taking pictures. We ended up having a "picnic" in front of the tower and fell asleep for a while. The girls woke up and went to look for a bank but I stayed and napped some more. There was this couple near by who was totally King and Queen of PDA. It was this Asian woman and this Russian looking man who were totally groping each other. We figured that they were having an affair because he was wearing a wedding ring and she was not. The woman was wearing a skirt and fish net thigh highs. How do I know they were thigh highs? Because when she was laying down she lifted her leg up and we could see the top of the stockings.

After our nap we headed back to the hotel to check in and relax for a bit before going out. While getting ready Jenn went to the store and bought 2 bottles of champagne which we drank while getting ready. We also had a mini photoshoot with Sounjew's camera and nicknamed ourselves the Gower Girls. LOL. That night we went out for Jen’s 21st birthday. We ate at this little hole in the wall place that had THE BEST gyros. (I still don't know how to pronounce that word.) Afterwards we went to this discotheque down the street. We started dancing and having a great time but then the bar tender told us that we had to leave if we weren’t going to order drinks. We had only been there for like 5 minutes anyway and I would have ordered a drink eventually. We decided to leave and then Jen told us about this bridge called the Pont des Arts which is made of wood and a lot of people go and hangout there. When we got there, there were tons of people hanging out drinking and mingling. Some people were playing guitars, bongos, anything. We found a spot and sat down. Next to use were these boys, literally. They started talking to us and they were very nice. I think the oldest one was 19 or something. We talked with them for a while and they invited us to some party in the subway at 1am but we didn’t know how to use the bus system to get home so we declined. We totally would have gone too because they seemed chill to hangout with and we commended them on having the courage for talking to a large group of girls. Afterwards we walked around some more, Jen got a birthday crepe and I split a waffle with Jessica and then we headed home.

The next morning we got up early to go to the Louvre. It was free since it was Sunday so we wanted to get there early to beat the crowd. We woke up a little later then expected because we forgot about the time change but we were still good. Our hotel had BOMB complimentary breakfast so we grubbed before we left. The Louvre was so nice, but I had been there before and it was pretty much the same. After the Louvre we met up with Jen and Isabel and Jen was going to be our personal tour guide. We walked through the parks towards the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs Elysee. We made a couple stops, one of which was the Louis Vuitton store where Isabel purchased her wallet. After we saw the Arc de Triomphe and took some pictures we took the subway back home and took a nap before going out. That night we definitely wanted to go back to the Pont des Arts bridge again. So Carolyn, Jessica, and I got take out sushi and Sounjew got another gyro and we had dinner on the bridge with our 4 bottles of champagne we had bought earlier that day. We wanted to go out and do something special on our last night but we found out that in France people had gotten Friday off from work for the holiday and not Monday so it was pretty dead. I really wanted to get crème brulee since we were in France so I suggested looking for a café. We walked a while and found a nice little café that would let us drink our champagne inside. When I walked in I discovered that it was actually a hotel and we were in the bar. The bartender was really nice about it but they did not have crème brulee on the menu. Instead we ordered an assortment of macaroons and an apple tart. We sat there for about an hour laughing and joking around (we gave the bartender some champagne and toasted with him) and then decided it was time to leave in order to catch the last train back to the hotel. I was pretty buzzed and we were laughing the whole way home. I will never forget our conversation about “blanco”.

We slept in Monday morning but managed to get up before 9am for some more complinentary breakfast at our hotel before all of the food was gone. We even made some sandwiches and wrapped them in napkins to eat later. The day earlier Sounjew had made conversation with some guy at the Louis Vuitton store and he had told her that we had to checkout his favorite spot in Paris, where you can see the view of the entire city. So our goal for the day was to do that and go to the Moulin Rouge. The spot with the view is called Montmartre Basilique du Sacre-Coeur and apparently the end of the movie Amelie was filmed there. The view was absolutely amazing. We found a spot on the grass and had some lunch there. When we were done we walked down and found the Moulin Rouge. It was located in the red light district so there were lots of sex shops around. We walked around this part of town a little more and I found a restaurant that served creme brulee so we stopped there and had some. (I did not however have a crepe while in France.) Carolyn also got her earrings at Chanel that she had wanted.

So Jenn made up this game called “Say What?” which has questions about all of the roommates and stuff and you fill in the blanks. They have been joking this whole trip that I like everyone and there is no one I dislike so one of the questions was “besides everyone, who does Anna love?”. I wasn’t able to sit with the other girls on the train so when we got off they asked me what my answer would be and I guessed Shia LaBeouf but Jen said that was wrong. Isabel guessed Eminem which was the correct answer. LOL. We were all cracking up about this because they have been making fun of me also for my everlasting love for Eminem. (I found out after the fact that he was in Paris this past weekend as well.)

Overall Paris was so much fun and I was glad that I went again because it was such a great experience with the girls. Pics up soon!