For having less than 48 hours in Paris we sure saw alot! Our trip to Paris was part of our program, so everyone from our dorm went with. Traveling with 160 kids gave me flash backs to our high school trip to New York. Aka.....we spent alot of time getting counted! Unfortunately, there were so many of us that they had to put us into two different hotels on opposite sides of the city. They also put the two groups on two different schedules for trains and tours so Lann and I saw very little of each other over the weekend. I spent alot of time on this trip with my roomate who goes the University of Michigan and two other girls from our floor who also go to Michigan. Where we saw all of the big monuments lit up at night.
On Friday morning my group boarded a bus to go to St. Pancras International, the big train station in London. From there we boarded a Eurostar train to Paris, this went going through the famous "chunnel" to go under the english channel to France. Two hours later we were in Paris!
After checking in our hotels, we took the french Metro to the Eiffel Tower area to take a boat tour down the Seine. After our experiences on the London Tube the Paris Metro felt very confusing, especially because our french is minimal.
After dinner in a French cafe and some sight seeing we embarked on a great metro adventure!
The snow found us on Saturday, which was our big sightseeing day. The day started with a bus tour of all of the big areas of Paris including, Notre Dame, the Arch de Triumpe, the Champs Elysees and various other French neighborhoods. Our tour ended with a visit to the Eiffel Tower. By this point of the day the snow was so intense that when we got to the top of the Eiffel Tower you couldn't see anything.
From the Eiffel Tower we had lunch at another French Cafe and journeyed to the Louvre to see the very famous Mona Lisa and various other big paintings. The Louvre is so big and intense that even 2 plus hours was not enough to see more than one wing of the museum.
The rest of the day included shopping, crepes, yet another french cafe and multiple French bars.
We had one last opportunity to see Paris on Sunday morning. My roomate, some friends and I went exploring to the Jewish Quarter of Paris which had some amazing bakeries and a fun middle eastern food called falafel.
After a morning in Paris it was back on the bus and the train to London. We were all exhausted and glad to be back in familiar territory!
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Thanks for sharing Jackie. Did you take any pictures? Chrissy wants to see pictures!
ReplyDeleteI love you, Mom
I'm sorry you had to spend so much time with Wolverines. Are there any Badgers on the trip.
ReplyDeleteI know I've expressed my jealousy before, but I was explaining to my friend a few days ago what my ideal trip would be and if I had a day in Paris how I would spend it. It basically included the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, and Arc de Triomphe. I've heard that if you spend a whole week in the Louvre you can't see everything.