Just spent the last two days in Paris with my sister, Erin, and I must say, I love it more and more each time I go. I can definitely see myself living there in the future. My travels started on Sunday when I left Lille bright and early to catch a train to the Charles de Gaulle airport to meet Erin. Once we met up, we took the RER into the city and then switch to the Metro to go to our hotel. I was actually really surprised that I was able to use the transportation so easily. I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to lead Erin around but I guess since it was the third time I've been in the Paris metro, I had a pretty decent idea on what to do. It's really not as daunting as I thought. The hardest part of finding our hotel was when we got out of the metro. There were about 6 different streets and of course we chose the one opposite of our street to go down first so we walked about in a circle. Not bad for our only problem! Once we checked in and got organized, we walked to the Montmartre area to see the Moulin Rouge and Sacre Coeur. We stopped at all the tourist shops and took lots of pictures. Erin got to experience her first French crepe too! We came across a guy who was making sculptures out of silver wire. He had a guitar made which I thought was awesome so I bought that and then he made both Erin and I free rings! We decided to go back to the hotel after supper so we could have a relaxing evening because 1- Erin was jet-lagged and 2- I felt jet-lagged because I only had 3 hours of sleep the night before. The next day, Monday, we woke up at 7am to go on a segway tour. I was tired, but extremely excited to start using the segway. Before the tour started, we had a little tutorial. I wish I had of taken a video of Erin, I have never seen her look more concentrated on something in my life. It was hilarious. After getting the hang of the segway, we took off on our tour. We covered Napolean's Tomb, The Eiffel Tower, The Tuileries, Ecole Militaire, The Louvre, Place de la Concorde, and The Rodin Museum. I froze for the first part of the tour but the second half was gorgeous. The sun came out which made the tour much more enjoyable. I really didn't want to get off the segway, it was so much fun to bop around on. Someday I'll move to Paris, live in a place with a view of The Eiffel Tower, and own a segway... I can dream, right? The Paris part can come true! After the tour we went back to Napolean's Tomb and went inside. Since I'm living in France, I got to go in for free and the ticket guy was nice enough to pretend Erin was from London and let her in for free too! Next we walked to The Eiffel Tower, then to the Arc de Triomphe, and then we took the metro to the Louvre. Unfortunately when we went to buy a ticket, it was closed for the evening so we just shopped and took more pictures. We had supper at a place called The Hippopotamus which was pretty good then called it a night. This morning we got up had a crepe and then caught the 3 hour train to Amsterdam. I will update you all on Amsterdam in my next post!
A tout a l'heure
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