Another busy day: on Monday Paige, Meredith and Kristen went to the Louvre in the morning when I went to class. Well that's not completely true, because after I went back home to my apartment I checked my class and thought it had been cancelled for the day. I met up with Paige, Mere, and Kristen at the Musee de l'Orangerie when they finished at the Louvre, But right when I got there, my friend from school texted me that we actually were having class, oops. Oh well, the Musee de l'Orangerie is one of my favorites! This is where Monet's Water Lilies are.
After this museum, we walked back through the Tuileries Gardens and caught the metro to the Arc de Triomphe. We climbed our way to the top for a great view.
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| A very windy view from the Arc de Triomphe! |
We next headed to the Opera area for some shopping, and went to the Galeries Lafayette. This is one of the best places for shopping in Paris - it's a huge, huge store with everything you could ever think of. My favorite thing to see here is on the roof actually, where you can look out over Paris. It is so close to the Opera Garnier that you feel like you can almost reach out and touch it - the Opera is one of my favorite buildings (think Phantom of the Opera, this is the place). We were getting ready for our afternoon break, so we stopped on the top floor for some French pastries... and gelato. Yum.
It was getting late fast, and we had planned to go back to my apartment and for the girls to meet Lillian and Gutenberg, the couple I had been living with. Lillian had made us one of her delicious apple tarts and served us cider in her champagne glasses! She was so excited to have us and to meet my friends. Adele even stopped by to say hello! I was very busy trying to interpret for both sides, I did my best. Gutenberg was happy as always and loved having the four of us girls over. I gave them a tour of where I was staying, which didn't take long. We stayed and talked some bit more, then headed off to another one of our fun French dinners...
Gutenberg dancing for us!
à bientôt!
