Otra Vez

Okay so this isn't actually tomorrow, but better late than never. In real life I am now home for almost a week, looking for a job down in D.C., recovering from jet lag, and waiting for most of my friends to come home. But I want to write about the last few weeks of my adventure, so that's what I am going to do.

After my lovely break with my family, I came home to hear the news my host parents BROKE UP. I was confused at first, and thought maybe something was getting lost in translation, but it ended up being true. I had a few days of class, and then on Thursday I left from Madrid to go to Paris to meet up with my friend from school Emma, who is studying in Manchester.

We met up, took the train into the city, and tried to find our hostel-this was the first time of many we found ourselves extremely lost in Paris. After a few nice people helped us, we found the hostel, checked in, and passed out. We got up early the next day to a great breakfast and ventured out onto the metro to the Eiffel Tower. It was a beautiful day, and we wanted to hit some of the major tourist spots. We walked to the Arc de Triumf, went up, strolled through some beautiful park, got our first of many crepes, then walked up to Sacred Heart Church by our hostel. It is one of the highest points in the city and had such a beautiful view. We made some dinner from the groceries we bought and talked to some really cool Sweedish girls in the hostel. We took a nap, and went out to a nearby bar for a beer with some guys we met in the hostel as well. Tomorrow would be another early day.

Saturday we wanted to walk around the Luxemburg Park and Notre Dame. We walked down the Seine and got some more crepes! we walked around and explored some of the smaller churches and tried to do some street shopping. We also saw Napoleon's tomb and this cool military museum. Dinner again at the hostel. We also caught the R. Madrid- Barca game with some people from the hostel on TV.

Sunday, we spent the majority of the day in the Louvre. It was as amazing as I expected it to be, and I think I could have spent all day there. We saw the Mona of course, and a lot of famous statues and other paintings. I was surprised there was no line to get in, and it wasn't even that crowded. We walked around after that, tried to see the Catacombs but it was closed, (fail) and decided we would go out to eat as a last night treat. We chose this cool French-Basque style restaurant that was full of young hip Parisians, and they sat everyone like Sardines. They had homemade sangria and some of the best food I have ever eaten in my life. After dinner, we headed to the Eiffel tower to see it at night all lit up. We realized we could still go up, and climbed the stairs to the second tier of the tower. It was so windy but amazing to see all of Paris lit up at night. We ran back to get the metro home and went to bed.

The last day, we tried to go to one of the other museums but it was closed WOMP. So instead, we went to the self-proclaimed world's best falafel restaurant. It was so delicious. We met up with one of Emma's high school friends and got some delicious pastries after. Sadly, it was time to head to the airport, say goodbye and go back to Madrid.
Pictures above!