Europe Trip 2009: Paris

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I'd like to apologize in advanced for the lack of accents in this post!

PARIS:

Saturday June 13th: We woke up and got on the bus which first took us to Cantebury (Cantabury?). After having lunch there, we got back on the bus and drove off to where we were going to catch our ferry to France, which just happened to be Dover (you know, the place with the white cliffs). We finally got onto the ferry, and it was the largest boat I ever remember being on! The English Channel was apparently surprisingly calm that day, and we ended up just exploring the ferry, then I hung out with Kelsey and Amanda, two of the girls from Colorado that were on the trip with us, and Amanda had Mermaid Melody coloring sheets. I, of course, colored them while listening to Jeff Dunham on Amanda's ipod. The ferry docked in France (I don't remember which city) and we then took a very long bus ride to Paris. By this time, my voice decided to give out on me and I sounded like a 30 year old chain smoker, so I just decided to sleep. When we arrived in Paris, we checked into our hotel, and then walked to Flans to have pizza for dinner. We then went to our hotel to sleep, very tired.

Sunday June 14th: We had a bus tour of Paris (saw the Champs Elysses, L'arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower etc. all from our bus) and then some of us boarded a new bus to go to Versailles. Versailles was beautiful! I tried finding my foreign exchange student from August 2008, Clemence, who was also at Versailles that day but I couldn't find her... :( Still, the palace was amazing, and the grounds are absolutely huge. After Versailles, we went back to Paris and saw the outside of Notre Dame along with the Holocaust Memorial. Then was time for dinner. I got to call Clemence during dinner to explain what had happened, I was very sad I couldn't see her! After Dinner, we went to the Eiffel Tower, all the way to the top! It was possibly one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life. After spending a few hours at the tower, we went on a boat ride down the Seine. We yelled to the people on the shores (stuff like "Bonjour, comment ca va?) and most of them actually responded in french! It was very cool. After the boat ride we headed to the hotel and slept.

Monday June 15th: We woke up and went to the Louvre. It's the biggest museum I've ever been to! I saw the Mona Lisa, it's quite... small. Me, Maja, Matthew, and Mrs. Charles all walked around the Louvre for most of the day, talking about paintings and sculptures (has anybody else ever noticed that the left boob is hanging out in almost all French paintings? It was odd XD) While we were at the Louvre, Taylor, Mrs. Wolf, and Mrs. Maus all went to see the outside of the Moulin Rouge (to Taylor's dissapointment, they couldn't go inside, she was also dissapointed when they told her "no" to the Museum of Erotic Things). After our fun, we went back to the hotel, and they had found the money I had accidentally left in my room that morning, you have no idea how relieved I was! We then took a bus to the train station to await our night train to Madrid, and I had to solemnly bid Au revoir to Paris!

Best quotes we said while in Paris:

"I can see Europe from here!" Mrs. Wolf, while on top of the Eiffel Tower.
"HWB-Harems Without Benefits" Matthew, he was the only boy in our group.
"Screw it! Just say furet, it means ferret!" Me trying to teach Clover French.
"They have beastiality with ducks here." I'm not really sure who said this one actually...