J'adore Paris!!

HERE COMES THE GOOD PART!!!!!!!!! We all went to PARIS for the weekend!! It was the most beautiful place I have EVER been!... It is everything I ever pictured it being! I packed all of my things up Wednesday night (while I was depressed from the play I had prevouisly watched! haha) because I had to wake up extra early Thursday morning to go to class at 8:30, and then to work immediately afterwards! I woke up and got dressed, and the whole morning I was telling mself "you are going to need an umbrella while you are there, dont forget it..." and what did I do? I forgot my umbrella!! And what did it do while I was walking from work to class? IT STARTED RAINING!... As I was pulling my suitcase down the street, it started raining on me... not a great way to start my day! I had to break down and buy an umbrella on my way to work!.. I left work at 3:45, and we headed to the airport at 4, our trip had finally begun! We got to paris at around 9ish, and got to our hotel by about 10... When we first arrived at our hotel, I am pretty sure my heart stopped-- the outside of it was closed off for remodeling, for about 15 seconds, all 4 of us were homeless, and felt like we were going to die!... We walked up to read what the sign said, and saw that there was another enterance on the other side of the building-- RELIEF! I thought I was going to have a heartattack on the spot, in a foreign country, with no place to stay!... but it was actually quite the opposite, we stayed at a fabulous hotel right across the street form the Lourve (which is by the way ENORMOUS!!!) After we got settled, we were all hungry, so we started walking down the street, and finally found a place that was open. It was that night that I fell in love with the croque monsier-- best sandwich EVER! I think i had about 300 while we were on the trip! When we were walking home, this guy came up and tried to talk to us-- and then out of nowhere about 6 other guys were surrounding us... they tried to distract us and separate us from each other, and Ashley said one of them tried to get in to her purse and take her wallet-- we finally got away from them, and had to run down the street a little ways to our hotel... (sorry Mom and Dad, I know i left that part out when I talked to yall!) The next day, we woke up and hit the streets... we ate at this cute little cafe for breakfast, and then headed to see Notre Dame, it was absolutely beautiful. We went inside, and there was a kids choir singing-- it was the most angelic music I have ever heard... I almost cried once or twice !(ok, so I did cry twice-- but I cry at commercials on tv, I'm a baby, so what!!!!) After we left Notre Dame, we went to the Pantheon and walked around in there for a little bit-- we then went to see the Arch de Triump and Champoins boulveard (or something like that? it is a street with alot of shopping-- and i didnt buy ANYTHING on that street!.. I was so proud of myself!) We ended the day going to look at the Moulin Rouge, and noticed that they had actual shows there-- so we bought tickets! We immediately rushed home to get ready, and then went back for the show.. it was SO MUCH FUN! Even though we couldnt understand the words in the music, or the occasional words the dancers would say, we still had a really good time-- I mean seriously, when else would I ever have had the chance to go see a Moulin Rouge show? And what better people to do it with than my friends?! We went home after the show, and went straight to sleep because we had another busy day ahead of us!... It was raining when we woke up Saturday morning, so we all dressed for the weather, umbrellas and all-- it was kind of a dreary day, and we still hadnt seen the Eifel tower yet-- it was kind of disappointing to have to see it in the rain, but it was still awesome! After we went to the Eifel Tower, we took the metro back to our hotel and walked to the Louvre where we spent the rest of the day! We saw everything from Napoleon's apartment to the Monna Lisa (and I GOT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF IT!) after we left the Louvre, we were walking through the Toulleries garden, and saw the one and only DAVID HASSELHOFF!!!!! It was the COOLEST thing ever! we had just gotten down stuffing our faces with brownies (and I had chocolate in my teeth that no-one cared to tell me about) and were walking by this guy taking a picture of his daugher next to a horse! Ashley had walked over to take a picture of the horse and hadnt even noticed him... Megan, Neely, and I were stopped dead in our tracks just staring at him! We were trying to tell ashley without yelling to her that he was stading there, but she was too busy trying to take a picture of the horses... she came over to us after david hasselhoff had started to walk away and was like "that stupid guy wouldnt move, and I couldnt get a good picture of the horse, I almost went up to him and told him to get out of my way" we were all just like ASHLEY! THAT WAS DAVID HASSELHOFF!!!!!!!! and of course, she was freaking out that she hadnt even seen him! I still think it would have been funny if she would have asked him to move though! haha... and it would be my luck that my camera had died not more than 5 minutes before we saw him, my friend Megan got a picture though, so maybe I will be able to post it on here when she puts her picutres online! We left Paris at 9:55... I was sad to go, and cant wait to go back with my parents!... I just decided that I am going to learn French, so that I can go back whenever I want!

ps. France knows how to make an awesome hotdog! i had one for breakfast saturday morning!... im disguisting, i know!