Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Walk, Walk, Walk and some Metro

Hi everyone, here's the basics of our visit in Paris...

Right now we're over at Yalu's apartment in Paris hanging out with her and Lucy (friends of Mahalia's, the friend we stayed with in England). So I can take more time, but it won't take as long to post because it's an American keyboard!!! Seriously French keyboards are really hard to type on, it makes your head hurt!

Anywho...

Some of you should be getting postcards from us soon...aren't you excited! You should be! Stamps are expensive and we made fools of ourselves asking for stamps...my French is lacking. But we were excited to send them, for real.

Anywho...

I saw Amber, my sister, yesterday and we did the Siene boat tour at night with her group. Basically the tour involved seeing Paris lit up at night, very pretty. The Eiffel Tour is much more impressive at night, it's VERY sparkly. During the day we went and saw Sacre Coeur, which is in the Montmarte area, the 'artsy' area of Paris. We also saw l'Arc de Triomph and walked up le Champs Elysees (very famous street in Pairs), there are tons of shops along it.

Anywho...

On Monday we went to the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, walked through the Louvre grounds, but didn't go in...basically we around the entire city both Monday and Tuesday.

Our diet has consisted of bread (baguette), cheese, yogurt, bananas and apples, pretty much since we've been here. The bread is amazing here and pretty cheap.

Today we went to Versailles Palace and hung out in the gardens, we ate lunch and walked through the famous gardens...we didn't actually go in the Palace, it was expensive to go in!!!

Other:
*May flosses after eating anything...it's kinda funny since she'll pull out her floss anywhere in Paris.
*Today, on the train to Versailles we sat by a couple and the man was wearing salmon colored capris pants...lets just say they were a little tight. It seems men in France wear their pants a bit tighter.
*In Paris there are TONS of couples everywhere and they are not shy about PDA...they make-out all the time!!! Everywhere you look.
*Lots of cute dogs, also lots of poo in the streets

That's all for now,

Ashley

1 comment:

Becky Wilson said...

Poo in the streets?? How will Jackie ever survive in France?