Paris

Sara here, finally reporting on Blake's and my trip to Paris between my trips to Scotland and Barcelona...which will have reports in due time! :D

Our trip to Paris was over Spring Break back in March, and consisted of two locations: Paris and Versailles. I'll be covering Paris while Blake chimes in later with a post about Versailles - I think I can comfortably say that it was our favorite part of the trip.

We left London in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and took a train to Paris. It really wasn't that bad of a ride, I know I slept most of the time - I hate mornings, especially mornings at 5am. DX

We arrived in Paris around 9am, and couldn't check into our hotel until 2pm, so we just roamed around the city and hit up some of the major attractions.











We had a lot of fun goofing off around Notre Dame. :P



Finally 2pm rolled around, and we checked into our hotel!

And then explored the area around it - Montmarte!


Which, yes, did include the Moulin Rouge! It was practically next door! :3


And then we explored Paris a bit more...




And finally...the biggest and best of all! The Eiffel Tower! <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rYaq0qhzE48/S7u2A-3X0gI/AAAAAAAAAMs/fUG4L8NJGlk/s1600/377.JPG">



And all of this was just the first day! The second day was spent entirely at Versailles, which Blake will detail in a future entry. The third day was at the Louvre, which was an experience in itself. We went through every single available exhibit in 7 hours. I still haven't finished all of the photos yet, but here's a taste of some of what we saw:








And then the fourth and final day was another wander about Paris adventure. We didn't do any tours or have any guides, just the two of us walking around the city and taking pictures. It was great! :)

I also dragged Blake along to see The Princess and the Frog in French. It was hilarious! I've seen the movie enough that I knew what was going on, but I think Blake was a like irked with it. XD But he made me go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a French audience the night before, so it made us even. XD
But isn't that just a perfect representation of the both of us? hahaha <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rYaq0qhzE48/S7u7E6CffFI/AAAAAAAAANs/BnBLUUrOOIM/s1600/014.JPG">

An original windmill that was near our hotel!

Overall impressions of Paris include probably much prettier in the summer, very touristy, and cold-locals. At least, that's how I felt about the whole experience. I would still definitely recommend it to anyone - it's a gorgeous city.

B&S