Paris, Je t’aime.
My first glimpse of Le Tour Eiffel!
I had the wonderful opportunity to spend the weekend in Paris with my grandparents!! Before I ever made the decision to study abroad, they happened to have reserved a cruise through France that ended in Paris. Being only a little over an hour outside of Paris, it was so easy to go and see them. Plus, who wouldn’t want to go to Paris?
Being a typical tourist with Le Louvre 🙂
I spent Saturday afternoon exploring Paris on my own, checking out the Le Tour Eiffel and Le Louvre. My grandparents already had a tour of Versailles scheduled. However, I got to meet up with them that evening. It was just my birthday, so they came bearing gifts of wine from the Burgundy region of France (Shh.. don’t tell my parents 😉 and chocolate. We had a lovely dinner where I got to try escargot for the first time! Unfortunately, my phone had died and I forgot my camera, so I don’t have any pictures to show for it. After dinner, we walked back to their hotel past the Seine river and saw the Eiffel Tower light up at night… so sparkly!
Sparklyyy
On Sunday, we went to Le Louvre. That place is huge!! I think there are over 100 rooms on each floor and 5 floors in total. I heard some statistic that it would take you days to see everything in the entire museum. Of course, we saw the Mona Lisa, but only after pushing our way through lots and lots of tourists. I took a picture of the tourists for fun. Afterwards, we went to go see La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (The Notre Dame Cathedral): very big and very old! Finally, we went on a riverboat tour of La Seine. We got very luck that it didn’t rain while we were on the boat. It had been on-and-off raining all day. It was nice to sit down and see all of the sites.
My grandparents and me in front of Le Louvre
La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
I had a wonderful weekend in Paris and was so lucky to have been able to spend it with my grandparents. I had no idea that they had never been to France or Paris before that trip. I felt so honored to be able to join them for that! I will be back to Paris soon.
Little Swan, Big World 