Tales from a week in Paris: Part 3

I have been really lazy with posting about this Paris week because I have been avoiding it like the plague because I have been doing a lot of other stuff.

Day 6:
We went to breakfast as normal, but this morning I got a video call from Jacob! I was so pleased to see him and talk to him because I was not able to see or talk to him all week because the hostel had shitty internet, but for some reason that morning the internet was fine and we got to talk to each other!! :D He was so happy to see me and talk to me, it was adorable. So, I started my day on a pretty good foot! :D <3

Before Mel and Amy headed back to London we all wanted to go to the lock bridge by Notre Dame, so we brought our decorated locks (Amy and Mel made one for them, Brooke made one for her and her roommate Stacey, and I made one for Jake and I) to put on the bridge! :D I really loved looking at this bridge just thinking of all the people that have been there and put their locks on the bridge and what each lock meant to the owner. It was just uber sweet. Brooke and I threw our keys into the river below and kept two so that we could just have them to make into a necklace or something nifty like that. :P While we were at the bridge we saw a bride and her husband taking pictures on the lock bridge and it was so cute! I did take a couple of really creeper shots because it was so darn adorable to see someone taking their wedding pictures on the love lock bridge. :) 

After the bridge we rushed back to the hostel so that the Mel and Amy could get their stuff and scamper off to the train station! When we got back to the hostel we went and looked up things to do for that day. The first thing on our agenda was to go to Père Lachaise cemetery so that we could see Jim Morrison's grave. When we got to the cemetery we were astonished by the size of it. This cemetery could literally be a small city, it covered so much land and had so many graves! Avery was pretty surprised that they were above ground graves, but I was more impressed that each little grave "house" was dedicated to an entire family and not just one person. So, we walked around this cemetery just taking pictures of things that we thought were neat while trying to find Jim Morrison (which was a chore!) the road for this cemetery are not set up on a grid and neither are the graves, which makes sense because this cemetery is ancient. But we did eventually get to the grave and there was a little fence around it because the original grave was replaced with the one that is there now because the old one was covered in graffiti and all gross. But there was a tree right close in front of the grave that everyone signed. :)

My favorite picture from Paris. :)

From Jim Morrison we went Champs-Élysées, which we had already been on, but decided to visit the Arc de Triomphe one more time. :) This time we decided to go under it because we didn't do that before, so we did and it was so beautiful! I knew it was big, but I totally underestimated how large it really was until I was actually under it and inside it. It was massive! Walking around it was very cool as well because we got to see down all these huge streets and got to experience the cars going around the Arc. After going to the Arc we decided that we were hungry and needed to find something to nom on. So, while walking down one of the most prestigious streets in Paris we decided to go get some McDonalds! :D It was awesome! Ya know how they have the pictures of what the food is suppose to look like but it never really looks like that? Well, our food looked like the pictures and it was awesome! 

Yeah, I got McDonalds in Paris. :)

When leaving McDonalds Brooke ran over to this tower of balloons (the ones on sticks that little kids get) and we walked out of McDonalds with full bellies and a new pink balloon. Brooke and I were so happy to have this balloon because it was something that was free and brought us joy. So, while walking down the street we went into the Disney store and talked about our favorite Disney princesses which was fun, my favorite is Ariel (obvi)! My daddy says that I use to watch The Little Mermaid everyday and now when I watch it downstairs and by dad walks by, he quotes it because he use to have to hear it everyday. :) But, Brooke really wanted to make the McDonalds "M" into something that was not McDonalds, so we made it into a bunny! :D When we got out of the Disney store we started walking down the street some more and then saw a crowd gathered around a bunch of street performers, so we stopped and watched what was going down. There were these three men that were jumping around and doing all these cool things, and at one point they grabbed a little girl to use as a prop, but she was so not going to be used as a prop, she was going to be the main event. This little girl just started dancing her heart out and the street performers were surprised but let her continue and she broke it down! About two minutes or so after the little girl started dancing, her mother joined in and also BROKE IT DOWN! The mother was dancing really sluttily (new word) and distinctly not wearing a bra, which made it more hilariously amazing! :P After we watched them break it down for a bit we kept walking. We eventually named the rabbit balloon Pompie and we loved him. Brooke and I were being so stupid with Pompie because we were throwing him up in the air and bopping him about on one of the most prestigious streets in Paris. We were literally acting like seven year olds and Avery was kind of shocked at how we were acting because people were looking at us but Brooke and I didn't care because we were having so much fun! We would hit each other in the face with Pompie because it didn't hurt but the thought of hitting your friend in the face was so amazing. :P At one point when Brooke and I were hitting Pompie in the air he kind of floated away and fell on the ground and Brooke said word for word  "Pompie needs to chill the fuck out. Oh, is that the Louvre?" and it was so hilarious because we were playing with a free balloon in PARIS and we were so caught up in the moment of Pompie that we forgot that we were being children in PARIS. So, we decided to go into the Louvre just to actually be in it and not look at any of the paintings because it was closing, but we had to deflate Pompie which was sad, but it needed to be done. :P After the Louvre we went back to the hostel and chilled out and did nothing at all. :) It felt good.

Day 7: Nothing exciting happened today because we left Paris this day and Avery and Brooke went out on a tour and I stayed in the hostel because I needed to finish a paper, and that is what I did until we left. :P 


Overall I LOVED my trip to Paris and I would love to go back and actually go into the Louvre, but I would need like 3 days to do what I would want to do in the Louvre! I might be going back with Brooke and her parents sometime in mid April, which would be cool! :D