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Well, I made it back from Paris and I have a lot to tell. So much in fact, that I'm going to have to write a different post for each day we were there so it may take me a while before I've covered the whole trip.

It all started Friday morning when we got up for our 10 AM class, frantically packing last minute items before we left and all realizing that we couldn't bring things like face wash, shampoo and body wash b/c we were carrying all of our bags on and didn't have travel approved size container. We were all ancy throughout class and when it was over we went back to the flat to grab our bags and then took the tube to Heathrow airport. We flew Air France and considering that one of their planes disappeared the week before, some of my flatmates were quite nervous about it. The flight was about 35 minutes; we took off, got high enough for them to serve us a snack (some french cracker type things) and then started to land.

We decided to take a taxi to the hostel because we didn't know the public transportation system at all nor did we really know where our hostel was. It was pretty expensive, when we got out it was about 47 euro and then he pretty much added his own tip on by telling us that the cost was 60 euro and none of us were brave enough to say anything.

The hostel was Caulaincourt Square Hostel and it was actually not bad at all. We were supposed to be in a 6 person room and since there was only 5 of us we were going to have a random person in the room with us, and there wasn't supposed to be a bathroom in it either. We ended up getting a 5 person room with a bathroom and they were actually very cutely decorated - it was probably cleaner/nicer than our flat in London - but it was very small, basically just room for the beds. Once in our room we spend a while trying to figure out the Metro, which is the Paris version of the tube and headed out to dinner.

We went to a restaurant suggested by one of my flatmates had brought because it had a traditional Parisian atmosphere. We got on the Metro and found the restaurant fairly easily with minimal wandering. The menu was handwritten in French and the only one of us that speaks any French is Linden, who took it in high school knew a minimal amount. She recognized vegetables and steak. We had no idea what we were going to do at that point, but then the waitress came around and very kindly told us in English what everything was. Three of us ordered a glass of white wine with our dinner, the other three girls that ordered food ordered steak and fries and I ordered what was basically like a beef stew but the broth was not as thick as a stew and tasted like a wine sauce. It was absolutely heavenly and just a Delicious meal. It was a perfect first meal in Paris.

After dinner we decided to walk to Notre Dame because we were close to it and we wanted to see it all light up at night. Along the way we stopped at the river Seine and took some photos and sat there for a while before continuing on. Notre Dame was amazing, there were hardly any people in the square in front of it because it was around midnight and it is such a big, impressive cathedral. All the intricate statues and carvings are awesome. It was pretty cold and it had been a long day so after about 15 minutes or so we got back on the Metro to head to the hostel. We all fell asleep almost immediately upon putting our head on the pillow.

Alright, I'll resume writing about the rest of the trip either later tonight or tomorrow because it's a lot of typing. Also I'm no longer putting my photos on Picasa, it takes too long to do that and facebook so I'm going to put the facebook link up and even if you don't have an account you can see them there:
Paris Photos
London Photos