Bonjour! That it about the only French word I know and it is a shame because communicating here is alot harder than I thought it would be! I am back to using hand motions and looking like an idiot trying to explain what I mean, but other than that Paris, France is great! I keep comparing it to London just because I think the two share alot of similarities in architecture and ways of living, however, they are not exactly identical of course.
We woke up late this morning and it felt WONDERFUL to sleep in finally! Across the street from our hotel is an area full of tents with fresh everything such as fish, bread, nuts, flowers and basically anything you wanted! It was chaos and people walking all over the place, but surprisingly it was all gone by late afternoon and you would have never known any of that was there by the way they cleaned it up! We ate breakfast.. or shall I say lunch at a cafe and had a french waiter who, in my opinion, was Mr. Bean. He was so funny and spoke zero English and when I asked if I could make my sandwich a panini, he very strongly told me no... I thought he was kidding, but apparently not haha We got the freshest orange juice I've ever tasted for drinks and enjoyed it all sitting on the porch of the cafe watching people go by.
We wanted to see some of the major sites in Paris, so we hopped on one of those "L'Open Tour" buses and plugged our headphones in and rode around listening to the history of all the places. It was cool because you can hop on and hop off at any stop you want to and your pass works all day, or two. We saw everything on that bus and I was really excited about seeing the famous arc. Because it was somehow the first Sunday of the month- the majority of the museums were free so everything was packed! We decided that buying a ticket would be worth not having to deal with the thousands of tourists all over the place. I am getting a little overwhelmed with all the people everywhere too- I almost just want to lock myself up in my room and watch documentaries about all the places than have to shove through and walk a thousand miles about everywhere. What am I talking about- that's part of the adventure of being a tourist in Paris as well I guess! Everything is alot more expensive here and I feel like all my family has done so far is eat eat eat. I am going to need to cut down if I want to still be able to fit in my clothes I packed!
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