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I'm spending my summer in London taking classes and doing an internship. If you want to stay updated on my whereabouts this is the place to do it!


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Name:Shandi
Birthdate:08/18/1988
School:University of Missouri
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Monday, June 8, 2009

The French are Bloody Mad ♥ 2:39 PM



Stand up and stretch a bit, this is about to be a long blog post!

So Saturday morning we woke up around 8:30 for a Hop-On, Hop-Off bus tour that we had booked back in London. We were a little leery and worried because they had told us we could just get on the bus with our itinerary at any of the sights the bus stopped at. Well we knew for sure that it stopped at the Louvre so we decided to take the Metro there. We had heard a rumor that it was free for students, so we decided to check but it was only free to people 18-25 that were from European countries but we knew that the first Sunday of every month the Louvre and the Muse d'Orsay. So we walked outside to take some photos outside the Louvre, and of course it was raining. But we made the best of it and took a few photos and looked around for Les Cars Rouge which was our bus tour company. We saw one drive by so we walked towards it and when the next one came he left with out us! So we walked across the street to the Muse d'Orsay because we could see the buses stopping to pick people up.

By this point we were soaking wet so we wanted to try and find a place to get a hot coffee and some food. We were called into this little café type place by a woman who was speaking english. The cappachinos were absolutely amazing but the food was just okay, there was a weird tasting mayo on my sandwhich. We then finally got on the bus, and it had nearly stopped raining at this point, but not enough to sit on the open top of the double decker so we just stayed on the bottom and listened to our audio tour and enjoyed the sights.

The first stop was La Palais Garnier which is the Opera that the Phantom of the Opera is based off of and where they did some of the filming for the movie. It is absolutely breathtaking, everything is so intricate and so expensively gorgeous. It was amazing I can't even describe it so I've uploaded a video of the actual theater part and I'll give you the link to other videos I made of it as well.

Next stop: Arc de Triomphe. This was absolutely massive and we could have gone up but it cost money and we didn't feel the need to take pictures from up above so we took some of the Arc and got back on the bus.

Next we made our way to the Tour Eiffel. We first stopped at Trocadero Square and took some photos from somewhat far away but pretty close and then after we took a bunch of photos there we got back on the bus and went right to it. There was a mass of people dressed in yellow in red dancing, singing, cheering and we eventually figured out that there was a rugby championship. They were absoutley insane and we actually saw someone get violenty arrested; there were billy clubs involved. It was very intense. That's one thing about the French, they have army members walking around with their guns out in full uniform and everything is very intimidating.

Next we went past the Louvre again to go to Notre Dame. It was very cool, we got to go through the inside of the Cathedral and it was gorgeous again very gothic and intricate. It's too hard to describe in words and I again have a video of it.

We got back on the Metro then to head to the Hostel to rest up for a bit and find a place to eat dinner at. After a short nap we went on a quest for a restaurant in Claire's guide book, we found it eventually but it wasn't serving dinner for another 30 minutes so we wandered around and found another place.

At first I just ordered a tuna steak, but Claire and Linden ordered french onion soup to start and it smelled so good that I had to order some myself. The food was all very, very good but was super stuffed.

After dinner we headed back to Trocadero square to see La Tour Eiffel at night when it was light up and doing the light show which they do on the hour for 10 minutes. It was really very pretty and awe inspiring because it made it really sink in that we were sitting in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower. We got some crepes while we were sitting there and enjoyed a good evening together on the grass until we got so tired we needed to go back to the hostel. Once again we slept like rocks.

I have a thousand more pictures I could put on here but once again I'm going to refer you to the facebook album as it takes forever for these photos and video to upload.

Here are some more videos too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/shandi818


The End.