We decided to get an early start this morning so we left our hotel at 8:30. We ate breakfast at the same little cafe we went to yesterday. We all got juice and croissants again. Then we took the metro to the Louvre. We were glad to find out that students got in free. We had heard so many horror stories about lines at the Louvre but there weren't any there. We got to walk right in. They might have been because we got there early though. We stayed for four hours and saw so much. We got lost a few times because it was so confusing and difficult to navigate. However, we saw so many things by just walking around. The two biggest things we saw were the Mona Lisa and Napoleon III's apartment. We also saw Aphrodite and Psyche and Cupid.
After the Louvre, we found a Laduree so we stopped to get some macaroons. That was the first time I had ever tried macaroons! They were a lot softer than I thought they'd be but they were still good. The chocolate was my favorite. Then we ate lunch before heading to Champs Élysées.
We were really surprised that Champs Élysées wasn't what we were expecting at all. We thought it would be like Bond Street with all the high end designer stores but it was more comparable to Oxford Circus. The only big designer store that stood out to us was the Louis Vuitton, which was the flagship. There was a huge line wrapped around the block of people waiting to go in. Then we got on the metro to go Sacre Coeur. In the metro station, Erika got her iphone pick-pocketed. We had heard pick-pocketing was really bad here and that you had to watch your bags carefully but we hadn't had a problem with it. I think we were all being really careful at first and then started slacking off a little bit. I felt so bad for Erika especially because she doesn't have a laptop on this trip and her phone was her only way of getting in touch with her family at home.
When we got to the Sacre Coeur area, we walked up all of the steps and had a beautiful view of all of Paris at the very top. It was rainy though so I'm sure we could've seen more without the fog. We went inside the cathedral and were really disappointed we couldn't take pictures because it was so beautiful. The architecture was amazing and the ceiling had the prettiest painting of Jesus with a golden heart on it, which was so radiant. There were also a sign that said there is always at least one person in the church praying at all times and it's been like that for the past 125 years.
We walked back down all of the steps and walked around the little town. We stopped at a tiny restaurant and had crepes for dinner. There were two women sitting at the table next to us. One was British and the other was American and the American one started talking about Chi O!! I thought it was crazy that we were in the middle of Paris in this small restaurant and someone right next to me was talking about Chi O. Then we took the metro back to our hotel for the night because we were exhausted and we had to leave tomorrow. I can't believe we got that much done all in one day.
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