The first Sunday of the month all of the museums in Paris are free, so we were lucky to be there the first Sunday in April. We went straight to the Louvre in the morning, after stopping for crepes of course. The Louvre is such a big museum, and it’s hard to navigate. We started off at the Napoleon apartments, which were very cool, then we headed to the Mona Lisa and looked at all of the paintings on the way. It was very strange the way they allow you to take pictures in the Louvre. The Mona Lisa was surrounded by a hoard of people flashing away. You would have thought Britney Spears was standing there or something. It was a strange dynamic for a museum.
After the Louvre we got lunch by Notre Dame and then went on a hop on/hop off boat tour of the Seine. It loops around the Eiffel Tower, Musée d'Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Notre Dame, Jardin des Plantes, Hôtel de Ville, Louvre, and Champs-Elysées. We hopped off again at Notre Dame to get crepes from the best crepe man.
We planned to go to Musée d'Orsay at 5 so that we could be there until it closed at 6:45, then we could have dinner. We got there a little before 5, and right when we did they said they were closing because they were at capacity because of free museum day. That was sad because we could have gone earlier had we known.
Next we went to the Opera house that The Phantom of the Opera was based upon. After that we headed to the Champs-Elysées. By that point it was getting very cold, had started to rain a lot, and we were tired from our day. We passed a few movie theaters and decided to go into one. The plan was to see The Other Boleyn Girl, but due to the language barrier we ended up seeing Be Kind Rewind with Jack Black. That was a surprise when the movie started! It was really funny and it was in English with French subtitles, which was nice.
Next we walked to L’Arc du Triomphe and took pictures. By that point it was freezing, so we went back to the hostel and got fromage crepes for dinner.
At 11:00, we climbed up many, many stairs to the Sacre Couer so we could see the sparkling Eiffel tower. We had a really nice view of the city, and the lights on the Eiffel Tower were amazing.
Apparently it snowed that night because when we woke up the next day all of the cars were covered. We woke up early to go inside the Sacre Coeur before we left. This time we were smart and took the funicular up the hill. It really is a gorgeous church. It was weird because we walked around and looked at the side chapels, and three in a row were for St. Rita, St. Mary, and St. Joseph, which are 3 of my grandparents’ names.
Then I took two trains, a bus, a plane, and another bus, and I was back in Dublin in time for class at night.
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