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Alright, I'm finally going to wrap up the details of the Paris Blog and then hopefully later tonight I'll have the energy to write about last night and today.

So Sunday morning in Paris we woke up somewhat early to got to the Louvre. Since we had to check out of our hostel room at 11 and didn't want to take our bags with us we had to leave them in this roped off corner of the hostel lobby with a bunch of other people's bags. We were a little nervous about it but it would never have worked to carry them with us, so we just took out everything valuable and hoped for the best.

The Louvre and the Muse d'Orsay are both free the first Sunday of every month so even though we were exhausted already from the last day and a half we were determined to make it through them. Of course the major exhibits section of the Louvre was packed, but the rest of it wasn't too busy. We saw a lot of french sculpture, and other things. But one of the coolest things that we saw was the Napoleon apartments. They are absolutely gorgeous and ornate and the coolest part is that it's all furniture that was there while he was living there and they've renovated it and kept it all looking like it did back then. I took some video for you to get an impression of what it was like because it's just too hard to capture in photos. A general theme of the weekend was me wishing that I lived many years ago.


Then we went off to find the Mona Lisa, La Venus de Milo, and the Victory statue. They were all very cool to see in person because of the esteem they all have. It was hard to enjoy it though because for each you had to wade and fight a sea of people and didn't really get to enjoy it for very long.

We ate lunch at a little cafe there and then went out to the Tuileries Gardens which were the gardens from when the Louvre was a palace. They are pretty expansive and beautiful as well as everything else we say. It was an incredibly nice morning so we sat out by the fountains for a while to enjoy it before heading on to Muse d'Orsay.

It is a museum with more modern are like pre and post and impressionism. It was cool to see some more modern works of art that we are more familiar with the art not just the artist. Linden and I are big Gilmore Girls fans, so we tried to find the Renoir painting that is featured in the festival of living arts episode but although there were many Renoir's this one was not there.

We finished off our weekend in Paris by getting back on the Hop on, Hop off bus tour since our voucher was for two days. It was nice out so we figured we would sit on the top and take it around as much of the route we could to see everything we could before we had to head back to the hostel to get a cab and head to the airport. It was really fantastic and I'm glad we had that option because it was a great way to say goodbye to a city that unfortanatly we may never make it to again.

The rest of our journey home is not so pleasant. When we got back to the hostel we had to wait for over an hour and a half for a cab because the first one that was supposed to come got lost or something so another one had to come at the last minute. Then once at the airport, our driver had dropped us off at the wrong teminal so we had to walk to another, then our departure gate was changed. Then the worst part by far however was the flight. As I said we flew Air France, the line that had a plane go missing about a week earlier due possibly to a lightning strike. Well as we were circling around Heathrow in the air for about 30 minutes, we hit very bad turbulence and lightning struck right next to the plane. It was terrifying and I felt so, so sick because as most of you probably know I have a very hard time not getting sick on planes.

We finally landed and I can't describe to you how much more I love London now that I've been to another city.