Tales from a week in Paris: Part 1

I was in Paris for a week and I did so much shit that I am going to have to split up the days and make the week more than one post because it would be a novel if I did not do so! :D


Each day I was in Paris I would write what we did in a little notebook so I would not forget. :P Here is my little notebook!

Day 1:
I got to Paris around 12pm with Avery and it was such a strugglefest! I speak no French and neither does Avery and that was a problem. She started getting mad at me because she was stressed that neither of us knew the language and she kept telling me to talk to people even though I knew nothing about their language...apparently because I speak Spanish means that I can understand French..not the case. Either way, we got to our hotel and had to wait about two hours to check into our hostel room so Avery and I got some food at the restaurant that is in our hostel and it was so good! Avery and I put our shit in the lockers under our bunk and went and passed out. We were sleeping for probably about 4 or so hours and then we got up and rustled around for a bit. Mel, Amy, and Brooke got to the hostel around 9pm and we were so excited to see them because we had not seen them for like 5 days and we missed them! They went to Copenhagen for the weekend and we went to Scotland so over dinner we exchanged stories and told each other what our journies were like. We kind of had an early night because we were tired from struggling to the hostel. :)


Day 2:
We got up around 9:30am and went down to the bar to get some free breakfast and head out for the day. Our first stop of the day was the Arc de Triomphe. 

The Arc was so massive! I imagined it being huge, but I was not aware at how large it really was. We took a bunch of pictures of the Arc and then made our way down Champs Elisees and saw a bunch of really neat stores...a lot of really expensive stores. We were on the hunt for the Eiffel Tower for about an hour before we got our first glimpse of it! We all jumped when we first saw it because we were so excited! It was cloudy around the top of the tower and that was kind of a downer, but we were still in PARIS!! I think that is when the whole being in Paris thing really set in for me. We walked towards the Eiffel Tower to get some pictures under it and every time we got a different view of the Tower we stopped and took like a billion shitty pictures of the Tower. When we finally got to the base of the Tower Brooke and Amy made signs that said "Happy Birthday Mommy" because their mothers have birthdays within three or four days of each other and Amy's mom's birhday was the next day. I took some super cute picture of those two with their little mom signs. I also took some pictures of Avery holding a sign saying "Bonjour Mom and Neil" or something along those lines. The the girls decided it would be an amazing idea to have me talk pictures of them jumping in front of the Eiffel Tower, so I did so because I love taking pictures. :D Then I had the idea that they could all whip their hair up on the count of three and their hair would be standing straight up in front of the Tower. That was hilarious and they looked like such tards! *I did not look like a tard because I did not partake in the flipping, I was merely the photographer.* 

We decided that there needed to be a hair flip in front of every monument we came across. :P After the Eiffel Tower we moseyed our way to Notre Dame and while we were on the subway to Notre Dame we saw a homeless man sleeping and a man walking next to us with a cane go to hit the homeless man's open bottle of juice. The asshole man hit the homeless man's bottle but didn't knock it over like he wanted to so he went back and knocked over the poor homeless man's drink. I was so pissed with the asshole douche fucker. I really wanted to go back and wake the bum up and give him some more juice or money to get a juice. But I didn't go back because I was already out of the gate. From the subway exit at Notre Dame we went and walked around a bit before actually going to Notre Dame and we went to the Pompi Dou Museum and it was so fucked up. I hated every minute I was in that museum because there was a feminist exhibit and it was so fucked. There were naked bodies everywhere and there were videos of naked women doing really odd things like holding a chicken upside down until it passes out and then chopping off it's head and then holding it with the blood going everywhere. It seriously freaked me the fuck out and I was done with that museum after that. Good thing we got in for free because I would have been 18 forms of pissed if I paid for that. So, we left the museum and moseyed our way to Notre Dame! When we got to Notre Dame they did some more hair flips and then we went in for a quick stroll around NOTRE FUCKING DAME! 

We took some pictures while in there and looked at the stained glass windows and stuff. Brooke, Mel and I had a little discussion about religion which was nice because they kind of had similar views to me which was nice because I am always around Avery and she is very Christian and it is nice to express my views without getting into an argument about religion. After wandering in and around Notre Dame we went in search for a restaurant for dinner, and we walked down this adorable street and decided to eat in a really neat looking place. We ordered our food and then there was a cat walking around our feet!! I was so happy to finally pet a cat because I miss mine so much! The kitty's name was Penelope and she was such a love bug. I went over to the table that she was sitting at and pet her for a good 15 minutes. :) It made me happy. After our dinner we went back to the hostel and crashed. :) It was a really good day to say the least! We saw a majority of the important Paris things!


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