Unfortunatly it's back to reality...well atleast as far as I can get with basically being on vacation for the last two months in England. Back to writting papers atleast. Paris was amazing, frustrating at times becuase unfortunatly I don't know a lick of French...but it was managable.

We arrived late Friday becuase we missed the ferry we were supposed to catch over the english channel, but it all worked out great becuase by the time we got there and found our hostel, the room wasn't ready so we had to walk around for awhile. We walked around the city and took pictures, found the metro and where we can eat for cheap. By the time that we all got settled in it was nap time and we didn't really get moving again until about 2 in the afternoon. We took a trip on the metro to Notre Dame and took a lot of pictures. Then we wanted to see the Eiffel Tower lit up at night...which was gorgeous!! We ate at this nice restuarant across from the Eiffel Tower, I had roast duck and a glass of wine. It was delicious! Everyone was so exhausted that we just crashed and got some sleep for Saturday. We woke up fairly early and Wheeler and I went to Notre Dame again to take a trip up to the top, which was incredible! It was a ton of stairs and my legs were shaking after the tour was over, but it was worth it. Wheeler and I had a really great lunch at this little cafe. French food is amazing I don't know what everyone was talking about before. If anything England has really weird food.

After lunch we went back to the Eiffel Tower and met our group there and took some silly fun pictures. Saturday was absolutely gorgeous with blue skies and awesome warm weather! Then we went to the Arc de Triumphe. It's basically just an archway that's very famous, huge, and a monument commemorating the lives of those lost in French battles. Tom, Wheeler, and I went to the top, everyone else went to the Eiffel Tower again and someplace else. It wasn't as expectacular as the Cathedral, but it was pretty cool to look off the top of the archway. There're some really cool sculptures at the top as well. Then we made our way to another cathedral, Sacre Coeur. It was gorgeous on the outside and inside. Not as impressive as Notre Dame, but close to it. It's on a huge hill that overlooks the city, its gorgeous! People gather on the steps outside and there was a guy playing some music and activities down the hill.
Later that night Tom, Wheeler, and myself went to Mcdonalds which was an adventure in itself. First of all, there is the language barrier...second, I don't eat burgers or chicken nuggets, atleast not from there. I only eat my dads burgers becuase I see him make them and they are good. Fast food burgers are just nasty. That was a problem becuase there were no chicken selects like at other McDonalds. So instead I had a ham and cheese happy meal...that took about 5 min to order with the lady because she didn't speak a lick of english and i don't speak french. Then we get our food which she packaged togo when we clearly asked for here, no problem...whatever. But there were no fries!!!! NO FRIES! I had a happy meal with no fries. Who does that?!! So I went hungry for the rest of the night becuase I didn't feel like buying anymore food. No problems...we made up for it on Sunday.

So we woke up early again but it was kind of a misty gloomy day. We were all meeting up at the Eiffel Tower, but it was wet and gross and I didn't want to go to the top getting wet and whatnot, so instead we just spent the entire day in the Louve. 6-7 hours in an art museum. I think I died and went to heaven. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. I've never seen so many sculptures in one place, nor paintings. I saw my favorite sculpture, the Winged Victory of Samotherace. We saw Leonardo Da Vinci, including the Mona Lisa. They had very few impressionist paintings, which was a little dissapointing, but god was that museum awesome!! I loved every minute of it. After we left there everyone went there seperate ways and Wheeler and I wanted to check out the Opera House, so we went there before we had to get on the coach home and took pictures of it. Then ate dinner at a nearby cafe where we saw this crazy fight outside. There were squad vans and these police officers dressed in riot gear...I'm assuming we may not have been in the best part of town, but I donno...it seemed nice. It was a really good dinner and interesting story to tell the group when we all met up again to go home.

The ride home was less eventful, we had a long tireing weekend and didn't get home until 6am this morning. I went back to sleep until 12, and now I have to get to work on homework.

I hope everyone had a safe weekend. Now I have to be off to write all the papers, ick!

Cheers!