PARIS

We left London to go to Paris at 5:30 AM. When we arrived we were so dead tired and everything was so foreign and people were speaking French all around us and we had no clue where we were at and needless to say we were pretty frustrated. It took us a while to find our hostel, which was called the 'Perfect Hostel.' Once we got to the hostel we took a 2 hour nap!

After we were rejuvenated we visited the Arc de Triomphe. We hiked to the top and it was an incredible view of Paris. We liked this place so much that we came back another night to see the night view of Paris. It was beautiful!

Most people we asked to take a picture of the 3 of us took a horrible picture. We call this our "money shot" because the nice man from Chicago took a SWEET pic of us in front of theArc.

This is on top of the Arc with the Eiffel Tower behind me!

We also went to the Eiffel Tower a couple of times. Here is a collage of pics.

I don't know if you can tell, but the bottom right picture is us jumping at the base of the Eiffel Tower.

My absolute favorite view of Paris was from the Sacre Coeur (translation: Sacred Heart). It is a Roman Catholic basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is kind of up on a hill, so you climb stairs to the basilica and it's a great view from there. The view was so awesome because it's a huge panoramic view with nothing like bars in your way. Then we also hiked to the top of the basilica and that was a great view too.

This is the view standing at the bottom of the Sacre Coeur.

Here is the view once we got to the top of the stairs- at the entrance of the basilica.


This is at the top of the basilica. You can see the Eiffel Tower behind us- it looks so small!!

St. Chapelle is absolutely beautiful. The stained glass inside is just breath taking. Picutres don't do justice! They don't really do justice for antying really!

Outside St. Chapelle


The pretty stained glass

We had to visit Notre Dame!

We were trying to find our way to the Pantheon, and we got a little lost (not unusual) and we found these beautiful gardens. We don't even know what they are or anything, but we browsed around and loved it there! I loved the pretty flowers. We also found a huge golden head...




We visited the Pantheon. It was built after the Pantheon in Rome. It was pretty sweet.






We went to Musee d'orsay and it was awesome! There was Monet, Manet, Degas, Whistler, and much more!! Here are some of the famous works...


These are all things we crammed within the the first 2 days we were in Paris. There is more to come!