little trouble in paris?

Sacré Coeur - beautiful basillica on the top of a hill in Montmartre, the art district. It was a beautiful church - we went inside and sat down and listened to some nuns sing for a little bit

The view of all of Paris! See the skyscraper to the right - the only one in Paris?! That's where we were the day before!

Then we walked down to see Moulin Rouge! Not as cool as we thought it would be but oh well

The Opera House where the Phantom of the Opera was based on. It didn't actually say Opera house, it said 'Academy of Music" or something along those lines and we weren't even sure if it was the right place but it wassss!

Okay so Day Two (Saturday) Sarah and I woke up bright and early (kinda) and headed out to Montmartre, the art district. There we climbed to the top of the Sacré Coeur to see a beautiful view of Paris. Then we walked around for a while and then headed to Moulin Rouge. There were TONS of sex shops around everywhere, which was funny because there was a family with two small children walking in front of us. Oh well. Then we walked south to the Opera House but we didn't go inside. But it was perdyy. We were hungry (surprise) so we eventually found a very very yummy crepe place!! We both got food crepes, i forget what they are called, but the crep itself is darker b/c they use a different flour or something, and very thin and mine was crispy. It had eggs, potatoes, bacon and cheese inside. Can you say YUM? well if you can, in French they say "miam maim" is in yum yum. Sarah told me that. Ha. Anywho then we had a delicious dessert crepe with dark chocolate and bananas!! amazing. Then we headed toward the Champs Elysées, which leads to the Arc de Triomphe! We saw the famous plaza with the obelisk and some other famous statue stuff. Booths lined the street selling everything from candles to chocolate to crepes to decorative lamps all for Christmas! Sarah and I got some hot wine, which was interesting. Then we arrived to the Arc, yess! very pretty. But it was still light out and we wanted to see if the street would light up (it didn't :( ) so we went into a cafe to get some cafe (haa, cofffee). And they basically give you two sips of extremely strong coffee in a teeny tiny cup, but it was good. Then headed back to the Arc de triomphe, it was at least a little lit up, then we headed back to Sarah's gma's house for some dinner! Oh, and lots of wine. She is 94 years old and pretty much only drinks wine. Hey, she's doing something right eh?
Then we met up with some of my friends from Duke! First we saw one of my friends and grabbed some wine and drank it by the Seine right next to Notre Dame! Very cool. And boats would go by with people partying which was pretty funny. Then we met up with some of my other friends and went to this super packed bar with dancing deal. It was fun until...come 330 am and we want to go home. So we leave and of course it's pouring rain. No worries, we'll just grab a taxi and go home. Oh, there are ZERO OPEN TAXIS?? Great. Yes, every 3 seconds a taxi drives by but they are all full. Finally one empty one comes, but my friend had to get it b/c she was by herself and if Sarah and I took it she would have been alone. So we wait. And wait. Another one comes!! Oh, what, you WON'T TAKE US HOME?? because we are too far out and there are no clients where we live for you?? THANKS STUPID PARISIAN TAXI MAN, I HATE YOU. No worries, the metro opens at 5:30. UGHH. Then we decide to walk, at least somewhere, dunno where b/c we have no idea where we are. Find a bus stop and we sit on the bench to be out of the rain. Another taxi, another refusal to drive us home. This time we are just feeling SUPER lemme tell you. FINALLY aroudn 5 am a dumb taxi driver says he'll take us. So we get back, sleep for a very minimal amount of time before I need to get up and head to the airport to get back to Madrid. At least I got to sleep on the 2 hour plane ride....

All in all Paris was so much fun though! And I have to say, Sarah and I are AMAZING tourists, and basically saw everything there is to see. and of course it was so good to see friends!! It was a good weekend :)