Sarah and Laura do Paris!

Monet waterlillies in the Musee D'Orsay!! The museum used to be a train station, so it was very cool, super open with statues and a very high ceiling and a beautiful clock.

Van Gogh famous self portrait

Sarah and I in front of the Seine River! We had SUCH great weather while we were there! It was pretty sunny and only rained at night! Apparently that is super lucky b/c November means yucky weather for Paris usually.

The Louvre! Although we didn't go inside, we made our way past here to get a picture of course :)

We arrived Thursday with a stressful start - my phone wouldn't call Sarah's for some unknown reason, and she had one number wrong to my phone number, so we had no way of getting in touch with eachother. We had planned out a place to meet but it was a very large area and we didn't specify where. Just as I was beginning to think that I would be stuck in Paris all alone by myself and never ever find Sarah, I was looking outside (I was waiting in a railway stop thing, it was confusing) do I see none other than Sarah!! I screamed her name and it was all good. She had been looking for me for a while, and her phone was almost out of battery and she was just wandering around the area trying to find me...ahh it was stressful but it all worked out! Then we headed over to the apartment of her 94-year-old step-grandmother, who was very nice and spoke perfect English (as well as French, Russian and i think Italian too). She took us out to a very tasty dinner and by then it was kind of late so we decided to sleep and start our touring early the next morning.

So our Real Day One (Friday) consisted of: waking up early, eating tasty croissants, going to Musee d'Orsay, walking along the Seine up to the Louvre, then walking to Marais, the old Jewish district, to eat falafel! Then we walked down back across the river to Notre Dame. Then we headed to the Jardin de Luxomberg, some pretty gardens! Then we accidentally wandered to St. Germain D'Pres or whatever and then we accidentally went to the skyscraper. Our goal was to walk to the Eiffel Tower but it proved to be very far and that we can't read maps that well...So we just took the metro there. Then we finally arrived at the tower and it was so pretty!! We walked around for a while, then grabbed a bottle of champagne (hey, why not?! and also we wanted wine but we didn't have a cork screw so champagne was the only option) and sat and it got dark and we saw the tower light up and sparkle! We then got some dinner (yumm) and headed home (aka her 94 year old step gma's house) after a long day of touring!