Yesterday I spent the best day in Paris! Raina and Kyle and I decided to go to Paris for the day because, well we were tired of being in Orléans and we've all had really weird weeks. So we thought a little day trip and some drinks would do the trick. It did.
First the train was packed and people were standing...so we sat in the luggage room. I'm not sure why no one else was, but whatever.
The only thing we had on our agenda was starbucks and we decided to figure it out from there. We took the scary RER to the Montparnasse tower because Raina said it was really cool. As soon as we stepped off the RER we found the starbucks so that was cool. There was a huge line to go up to the Montparnasse tower so we decided to go to the restaurant and grab a drink instead of waiting in line and paying 10 euros. The view was incredible and the restaurant was really classy. I think the view is so good because you don't have to look at the Tour Montparnasse...because its kind of ugly haha.
Along the way, we picked up a lonely british woman who followed us around, she was nice and apparently, she's a writer. You could kind of tell when she talked because she said really random things but they were at least imaginative. Anyway, so that was cool, making a new friend. Then we decided to wander around a little bit, ya know Notre Dame, Saint Michel, (we attempted the catacombs but they were closed) Then we needed a drink. So Raina pulled out her trusty tourist guide and found a sangria bar in the student district with 3 dollar sangria. We hiked it to the bar and finally found it. The british girl invited her french friend Bertrand. It was really weird because we all thought he was british for a long time because his accent was impeccable. Well at least to us Americans. He was really cool and gave us his card so we could stay with him next time. He has done loads of cool stuff in his life and I hope we get to hang out with him again. He was telling us about this other cool bar so he walked us to it and as it turns out I had been there before 3 years ago....weird! Its times like that you know you are in the right place doing the right thing. Anyway that bar happened to be closed for the holidays so we went next door and it was packed full of students. We got some beers, Kyle made new friends and then had to leave to get a kebab before our train. We searched for like 10 min and we saw nothing. Then suddenly we turned a corner and it was like kebab mecca. So we ate delicious kebab and headed back to the train station.
We hopped on our train at 11:40 and started our journey back to good ole Orléans. Here is Kyle with a bag of beer hanging out of the train haha. The train ride was pretty funny though because there was one other girl in our car and she probably hated her life because we were really loud and obnoxious, stereotypical Americans. Oh well we finally made it back to Orléans and we all stumbled home. Needless to say it was a really awesome trip. Try not to judge me :)
Love Leah
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